STOPPAGE
\stˈɒpɪd͡ʒ], \stˈɒpɪdʒ], \s_t_ˈɒ_p_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of STOPPAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The act of stopping or arresting progress or motion: or the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood, the stoppage of commerce. "We were tripping away … when we came upon my lady in a street stoppage in her chair."-Thackeray: a deduction made from pay or allowances to repay advances, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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