All stoppage synonyms
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S s noun stoppage
- 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.
- falloff — a decline in quantity, vigor, etc.
- disconnection — the act of disconnecting.
- intermission — a short interval between the acts of a play or parts of a public performance, usually a period of approximately 10 or 15 minutes, allowing the performers and audience a rest.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- heave ho — an act or effort of heaving.
- in-junction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
- ban — To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
- cunctation — delay
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
- embolus — A blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object that has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
- arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- interdiction — an act or instance of interdicting.
- heave-ho — an act of rejection, dismissal, or forcible ejection: The bartender gave the noisy drunk the old heave-ho.