All stoppage synonyms

noun stoppage

• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• obviation — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• dont — contraction of do not.
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• holdup — a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
• discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
• immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
• inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
• 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.
• quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
• infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
• discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
• infarction — the formation of an infarct.
• logjam — an immovable pileup or tangle of logs, as in a river, causing a blockage.
• backup — Backup consists of extra equipment, resources, or people that you can get help or support from if necessary.
• interruption — an act or instance of interrupting.
• impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
• nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
• downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• encirclement — The act of encircling or the state of being encircled.
• hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• cooling-off period — A cooling-off period is an agreed period of time during which two sides with opposing views try to resolve a dispute before taking any serious action.
• embargo — Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).
• occlusion — the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.
• closure — The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there.
• interlude — an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• cutoff — A cutoff or a cutoff point is the level or limit at which you decide that something should stop happening.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• hold-up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• lead balloon — a total failure
• deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
• implosion — the act of imploding; a bursting inward (opposed to explosion).
• drop-off — a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
• don't — contraction of do not.
• interregnum — an interval of time between the close of a sovereign's reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor.
• downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
• idyll — a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• nonsuccess — Absence of success; failure.
• dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
• immobilisation — Alternative spelling of immobilization.