meaning of stoppages

1. 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.
2.
stoppage /stop*j/ Extreme lossage that renders something usually something vital completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a fried transformer. " [Jargon File]
3.
the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a ">flood"


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