n. | 1. | The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; |
Noun | 1. | stoppage - 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" |
2. | stoppage - an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" | |
3. | stoppage - the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" Synonyms: stop |
stoppage - /sto'p*j/ Extreme lossage that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a fried transformer." |