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cessation
A bringing or coming to an end; a ceasing:
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  1. A bringing or coming to an end; a ceasing:
  2. A ceasing, or stopping, either forever or for some time
  3. (Formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final.
check
A draft signed by a person (the drawer or maker) that directs a bank (the drawee) to pay, on demand and without conditions, a specific sum of money to another person (the payee). Usually the funds are withdrawn from an account or a deposit that the drawer or maker has with the bank. Also called cheque. A draft signed by a person (the drawer or maker) that directs a bank (the drawee) to pay, on demand and without conditions, a specific sum of money to another person (the payee). Usually the funds are withdrawn from an account or a deposit that the drawer or maker has with the bank. Also called cheque.
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  1. A draft signed by a person (the drawer or maker) that directs a bank (the drawee) to pay, on demand and without conditions, a specific sum of money to another person (the payee). Usually the funds are withdrawn from an account or a deposit that the drawer or maker has with the bank. Also called cheque. A draft signed by a person (the drawer or maker) that directs a bank (the drawee) to pay, on demand and without conditions, a specific sum of money to another person (the payee). Usually the funds are withdrawn from an account or a deposit that the drawer or maker has with the bank. Also called cheque.
discontinuance
The act or an instance of discontinuing or the condition of being discontinued; cessation.
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  1. The act or an instance of discontinuing or the condition of being discontinued; cessation.
  2. (Law) The stopping of a legal action prior to trial, either voluntarily by the plaintiff or by order of the court
  3. The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an ending.
discontinuation
Discontinuance
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  1. Discontinuance
  2. A cessation; a discontinuance.
  3. Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
halt
(Dated) Lameness; a limp.
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  1. (Dated) Lameness; a limp.
  2. A command to stop
  3. A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one:
stay
(Law) The order by which a planned action is stayed.
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  1. (Law) The order by which a planned action is stayed.
  2. Anything used as a support, or prop
  3. A stop, halt, check, or pause
stop
The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped:
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  1. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped:
  2. A stay or sojourn
  3. An order to withhold payment on a check
cessation
A bringing or coming to an end; a ceasing:
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  1. A bringing or coming to an end; a ceasing:
  2. (Formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final.
  3. A ceasing, or stopping, either forever or for some time
discontinuance
(Law) The stopping of a legal action prior to trial, either voluntarily by the plaintiff or by order of the court
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  1. (Law) The stopping of a legal action prior to trial, either voluntarily by the plaintiff or by order of the court
  2. The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an ending.
  3. A stopping or being stopped; cessation or interruption
discontinuation
Discontinuance
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  1. Discontinuance
  2. A cessation; a discontinuance.
  3. Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
halt
(Dated) Lameness; a limp.
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  1. (Dated) Lameness; a limp.
  2. A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one:
  3. A command to stop
standstill
Complete immobility; halt
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  1. Complete immobility; halt
  2. Complete cessation of activity or progress:
  3. A stop, halt, or cessation
stop
(Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily:
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  1. (Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily:
  2. A place at which someone or something stops:
  3. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped:
gridlock
On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
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  1. On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
  2. A traffic jam in which no vehicular movement is possible, especially one caused by the blockage of key intersections within a grid of streets.
  3. A traffic jam, as at an intersection, in which no vehicle can move in any direction
immobilization
The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
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  1. The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
  2. (Soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
jam
A crush or congestion of people or things in a limited space:
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  1. A crush or congestion of people or things in a limited space:
  2. A group of persons or things so close together as to jam a passageway, etc.
  3. (Informal) jam session
tie-up
A connection, relation, or involvement, as between businesses; specif., merger
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  1. A connection, relation, or involvement, as between businesses; specif., merger
  2. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity
  3. A temporary stoppage or interruption of work, production, traffic, service, etc.
Find another word for stoppage. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for stoppage, like: cessation, check, cut off, discontinuance, discontinuation, halt, stay, stop, surcease, cessation and discontinuance.

Sentence Examples

  • No unnecessary force is permitted, and no stoppage must occur during the operation.

  • The spectacle of anarchy, and the stoppage in payment of taxes frightened the Republican deputies into some approach to sanity.

  • The activity of the new cambium is often associated with the stoppage of the original one.

  • Among other laws Bonaparte enacted that French should at once be the official language, that 30 young men should every year be sent to France for their education; that all foreign monks be expelled, that no new priests be ordained before employment could be found for those existing; that ecclesiastical jurisdiction should cease; that neither the bishop nor the priests could charge fees for sacramental ministrations, &c. Stoppage of trade, absence of work (in a population of which more than half had been living on foreign revenues of the knights), and famine, followed the defeat of Bonaparte at the Nile, and the failure of his plans to make Malta a centre of French trade.

  • The principal features are the stoppage of the vessels and consequent wilting of the shoots; as a rule the cut vessels on transverse sections of the shoots appear brown and choked with a dark yellowish slime in which bacteria may be detected, e.g.

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