All standstill synonyms

noun standstill

• deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
• lockout — the temporary closing of a business or the refusal by an employer to allow employees to come to work until they accept the employer's terms.
• walkout — a strike by workers.
• blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
• impasse — a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock.
• logjam — an immovable pileup or tangle of logs, as in a river, causing a blockage.
• moratorium — a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons.
• cutoff — A cutoff or a cutoff point is the level or limit at which you decide that something should stop happening.
• motionlessness — The property of being motionless.
• interregnum — an interval of time between the close of a sovereign's reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor.
• dreaminess — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
• breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
• cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.