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stoppage

noun
🔊/ˈstɒpɪdʒ/
🔊/ˈstɑːpɪdʒ/
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  1. [countable] a situation in which people stop working as part of a protest or strike停工；罢工
    • 400 workers were involved in the stoppage.400名工人参与了停工。
    • a two-day stoppage by train drivers火车司机停了两天
    Topics Social issuesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • work
    • workplace
    • 24-hour
    • …
    verb + stoppage
    • call
    • call for
    • threaten
    • …
    stoppage + noun
    • time
    preposition
    • during a/​the stoppage
    See full entry
  2. [countable] (sport体育) a situation in which a game is interrupted for a particular reason中断比赛
    • Play resumed quickly after the stoppage.比赛中断后不久又继续进行。🔊🔊
    • stoppage time (= added on at the end of the game if there have been stoppages)比赛补时时间
    Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
  3. [countable] a situation in which something does not move forward or is blocked堵塞；阻塞
    • a stoppage of blood to the heart通往心脏血液的阻塞
  4. stoppages
     [plural] (British English, old-fashioned, formal) an amount of money that an employer takes from people’s wages for tax and other payments（工资中用于纳税等的）扣除款