[W/K] :: stoppage

  Stoppage \Stop"page\, n.
     The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or
     action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of
     the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
     [1913 Webster]

  stoppage
       n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the
            negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check";
            "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay
            enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire
            stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch,
             stay, stop]
       2: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber
          to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage,
           block, closure, occlusion, stop]
       3: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some
          remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a
          flood" [syn: stop]

  232 Moby Thesaurus words for "stoppage":
     Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, Z, abdominal epilepsy,
     access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy,
     afterthought, akinetic epilepsy, apodosis, apoplexy, arrest,
     arrestation, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bar, barrier, bell, bind,
     blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage,
     bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, cardiac epilepsy, catastrophe,
     ceasing, cecum, cessation, check, checkmate, choking, choking off,
     clog, clonic spasm, clonus, coda, conclusion, congestion,
     constipation, consummation, convulsion, cortical epilepsy,
     costiveness, crack of doom, cramp, cul-de-sac, culmination,
     cursive epilepsy, curtain, curtains, cutoff, dead end, dead stop,
     deadlock, death, debarment, decease, delay, delayage,
     delayed reaction, denouement, destination, destiny, detention,
     determent, deterrence, discouragement, diurnal epilepsy, doom,
     double take, dragging, eclampsia, effect, embolism, embolus, end,
     end point, endgame, ending, envoi, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior,
     epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior,
     epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epilogue, eschatology,
     estoppel, expiration, falling sickness, fate, final solution,
     final twitch, final whistle, final words, finale, finality, finis,
     finish, fit, focal epilepsy, forbiddance, foreclosure,
     forestalling, frenzy, full stop, goal, gorge, grand mal,
     grinding halt, gun, halt, hang-up, haute mal, hindrance, holdup,
     hysterical epilepsy, ictus, impasse, impediment, infarct,
     infarction, interim, izzard, jam, lag, lagging, larval epilepsy,
     laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, last, last breath, last gasp,
     last things, last trumpet, last words, latent epilepsy, latter end,
     lockjaw, lockout, logjam, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy,
     moratorium, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy,
     nocturnal epilepsy, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, obviation,
     occlusion, omega, paperasserie, paroxysm, pause, payoff, period,
     peroration, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, preclusion,
     prevention, prohibition, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy,
     quietus, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reflex epilepsy,
     reprieve, resolution, respite, resting place, retardance,
     retardation, rotatoria, sealing off, seizure, sensory epilepsy,
     serial epilepsy, sit-down strike, slow-up, slowdown, slowness,
     spasm, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay,
     stay of execution, stop, stopping, stopping place, strangulation,
     strike, stroke, suspension, swan song, tardy epilepsy, term,
     terminal, termination, terminus, tetanus, tetany, throes,
     thromboembolism, thrombosis, tie-up, time lag, tonic epilepsy,
     tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus,
     ucinate epilepsy, visitation, wait, walkout, windup,
     work stoppage
  
  

  stoppage /sto'p*j/ n. Extreme lossage that renders something (usually
     something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was
     caused by a fried transformer."
  
  

  stoppage
       
          /sto'p*j/ Extreme lossage that renders something (usually
          something vital) completely unusable.  "The recent system
          stoppage was caused by a fried transformer."
       
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          (1995-01-24)