1 [C] a situation in which people stop working as part of a protest or strike:
400 workers were involved in the stoppage. * a two-day stoppage by train drivers
2 [C] (sport) an interruption in the game for a particular reason:
Play resumed quickly after the stoppage. * stoppage time (= added on at the end of the game if there have been stoppages)
3 [C] a situation in which sth does not move forward or is blocked:
a stoppage of blood to the heart
4 (stoppages) [pl.] (old-fashioned, BrE, formal) an amount of money that an employer takes from people's wages for tax and other payments
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stoppage is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stoppage a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stoppage is tagged as noun.
Does stoppage appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — stoppage appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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