stoppagen.
/ˈstɒpɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstɑpɪdʒ/ The action of stopping, the condition of being stopped.† 2. An obstacle, hindrance. Obsolete.
1. Deduction from payments; a sum ‘stopped’ or deducted from the pay of a soldier, workman, or servant.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > deduction from pay
stoppage1465
pay cut1931
1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 137 I told hym that..I wold pay hym his dewte without any stoppage.
1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 140 The Private Men at the rate of 6d. Sterling per Day, out of which a Stoppage must be made of 4d. for their Provisions.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Stoppages, in a military sense, deductions from a soldiers pay, the better to provide him with necessaries, &c.
1831 Act 1 & 2 Will. IV c. 37 §23 Such Stoppage or Deduction..shall not be in any Case made from the Wages of such Artificer, unless [etc.].
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 525 His anxiety that she should receive her income regularly and without stoppages was honourable to him.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 243 Stoppages, deductions from miners' wages, such as rent, candles, blacksmith's work, field club, etc.
1912 Daily News 8 Mar. 2 A miner works nearly a whole day for stoppages, lamp oil (permanent), tools, doctor, etc.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
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bunker1900
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hurdle1924
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monkey wrench1937
roadblock1945
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 196 To blynde the devyl of his knowlache, And my byrthe from hym to hyde, That holy wedlok was grett stoppage.
3.
a. Obstruction of a road, passage, stream, or current; †concrete something that obstructs.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > stopping or blocking up
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stopping1487
stoppage1540
obturation1583
obstipation1612
interclusion1623
occlusion1645
stopping up1671
blocking1706
clogging1846
choking1863
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes by blocking
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stoppage1540
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1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. Lij I haue ouer passed all stoppages of wayes .i. all suche lettes of passage [etc.]..as myght lette me on my waye.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vi. 55 I haue seen a little stream of no noise which vpon his stoppage hath swelled vp.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 174 An Act was made in this Kings time, that all Weares, Mils, and other stoppages of Rivers..should be removed.
1773 J. Fletcher Dreadful Phenom. (title page) A particular account of the sudden stoppage of the River Severn.
1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 104 Those States have suffered by the stoppage of the channels of their commerce.
b. A ‘block’ of the traffic in a street.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic jam
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stoppage1727
lock1834
block1861
pinch point1868
tie-up1889
traffic jam1891
traffic snarl1899
traffic snarl1933
traffic snarl-up1947
thrombosis1959
snarl-up1960
back-up1962
tailback1975
gridlock1980
1727 Daily Post 4 Feb. 1/3 The High Bailiff of Westminster..was ordered to take Care to prevent the Stoppages in the Streets leading to the Parliament House.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 34 When he got into Fleet-street, there was ‘a stoppage’, in which people in vehicles have the satisfaction of remaining stationary for half an hour, [etc.].
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxi Broughams whirled and bright barouches glanced, [etc.]..There were stoppages in Bond Street.
c. Closing up of a vessel.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > closing up a vessel
stoppage1725
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Restoring of Cider The..Flatness of this Liquor is often occasion'd by the too free Admission of the Air into the Vessel, for want of right Stoppage.
4. Pathology. Obstructed condition of a bodily organ.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > obstruction
stoppinga1398
oppilationa1400
obstruction1533
stoppage1575
clausure1585
obstipation1612
infarction1689
congestion of an organ1803
heart attack1836
engorgement1872
infarct1873
MI1968
cardiac1972
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 233 You shall finde it ease your Hawke greatly, and ridde a greate parte of the filthie matter that breadeth the stoppage in his head.
1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 2 A very great stoppage..at the brest... By degrees all her stopping and lisping left her.
1686 S. Meade in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1914) Oct. 168 Nathanaell had a loosenesse for aboue 2 weekes, which..carried of his flegme & stoppage at his stomacke.
1704 London Gaz. No. 3986/4 A Stoppage in his Nose.
1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 522 But about that age [he] was afflicted with stoppages, which often threw him into convulsive fits.
1784 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children 235 The lightest sympton of cold..is that called the snuffles, or stoppage of the nose.
1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 319 Order I. Paraphymata. Local Changes..41 Emphragma.—Stoppage.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 889 The stoppage of the nose..constitutes a serious impediment to respiration.
5. Arrest or detention of a traveller, or of goods being conveyed from place to place. stoppage in transitu, in transit (Law): see quot. 1862.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] > in transit
intercepting1598
interception1611
stoppage1621
society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > other import or export issues
stoppage in transitu, in transit1810
complementation1979
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 354 In our last wee advised you the stoppage off the Dutches goods likewise by Saffy Caun.
1649 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 446 There being a generall stoppage of all letters.
1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. iii. i. 13 This stoppage of a favourite article, without assigning some reason, might have occasioned a general murmur.
1810 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 2) II. xxxvii. 1171 Stoppage in Transitu.
1862 J. W. Smith Man. Common Law 267 Stoppage in transitu is the resumption by a vendor of the possession of goods which have been transmitted to, but have not yet come into the actual or constructive possession of, a purchaser who has become insolvent.
1911 J. H. Rose Pitt & Great War iv. 103 Grenville refused to discuss or explain the stoppage of certain cargoes of grain destined for French ports.
6.
a. The action of stopping or causing to cease.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation
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stemming1914
turn-off1967
1657 J. Cooke tr. J. Hall Sel. Observ. Eng. Bodies xcv. 302 The stoppage of Vrine and Strangury..may be joyned together, the one being a totall the other a partiall suppression of Urine.
1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours 50 The stoppage of a cough, or spitting, increases phlegm in the stomach.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xli. 106 This Stoppage of Trade and Fishing..made a great Noise among the poorer Sort.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 253 The distance in the canal to which this stoppage of the pulsation extends, varies in different cases.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vii. 85 The House of Lords complained of this stoppage of the issue of writs by the Commons.
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 326 Stoppage of bleeding is the first point to be attended to if it is serious.
b. Discontinuance of supply.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying > discontinuance of supply
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1865 C. Dickens Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions: To be Taken for Life in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 47/1 Thereby leading to..the total stoppage of the unfortunate young man's beer.
7.
a. Cessation of movement or activity; a stop or halt in a journey.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion
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stop1544
checkc1555
stoppage1775
pull-up1834
arrestment1836
arresting1849
fetch-up1866
hold-back1888
seize-up1912
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
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lay-over1873
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overnight1936
the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun]
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1775 S. Curwen Jrnl. 20 July I. (1972) 37 The sudden stoppage of the Carriage.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 46 Our first stoppage was at Dordrecht, or Dort.
1856 I. L. Bird Englishwoman in Amer. 159 We ran three hundred miles through central Michigan in ten hours, including stoppages.
1865 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1871) 426 An abrupt stoppage of sensation.
1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xv. 169 They had a hamper and were independent of stoppages for provision.
1913 Times 13 Sept. 18/5 Unless there is an improved demand we shall soon be hearing of the stoppage of looms through lack of work.
b. A cessation of work owing to disagreement between employer and employees; a strike or a lock-out.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike
turn-out1806
strike1810
steek1812
standout1826
stickout1845
walkout1881
stoppage1902
jack-up1945
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 554/1 The adjustment of differences that might otherwise lead to stoppage.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 14/1 To distinguish stoppages as strikes or lock-outs according to the source of the original demand for a change of conditions would lead to a very arbitrary and misleading classification.
1926 Publishers' Circular 29 Dec. 895/3 1926... The year of the General Stoppage.
1966 Listener 1 Sept. 302/2 An American-owned engineering works in north-west London is to close down because of stoppages and the economic squeeze.
1976 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 8 Dec. 1/2 More than 350 Blackpool Corporation busmen agreed unanimously to give authority to the TGWU's North Lancashire District Committee to call them out on a one-day stoppage in support of their Fylde colleagues.
8. Commerce. The action of stopping payment.
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society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > [noun] > stopping payment
stoppage1817
1817 W. Beloe Sexagenarian II. 189 It is no less singular, that this failure did not occasion the bankruptcy, or cause stoppage of payment, in any other house.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. iv. 95 It was indeed a stoppage of payment without a concomitant bankruptcy, two things hitherto synonymous in England.
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. v. 167 There was..a pretty severe run upon the Bank of England, and it was at length apprehended that she might be obliged to make a temporary stoppage.
1864 C. E. L. Riddell George Geith xxxvi Norton's stoppage has ruined me.
1891 Law Times 90 377/1 He had been concerned in floating several companies, the stoppage of one of which, it is stated, has ruined a number of persons.
Draft additions June 2015
stoppage time n. (a) a period of time during which movement, activity, supply, etc., has stopped or been brought to a halt; (b) Sport (chiefly British) = injury time n. at injury n. Compounds 2.
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1846 Standard 12 Jan. 3/2 The error arose from my having twice deducted from the stoppage time the minute and a half lost by the broad gauge experiment.
1895 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 15 Sept. 2/5 The next stop on the way was at Halsted, where he stayed for three hours and a half, making his total stoppage time on the way nine hours.
1935 Proc. Inst. Mech. Engineers 129 527 The highest efficiency is reached when the stoppage time is reduced to a minimum.
1972 Times 22 May 12/6 Two goals, scored after 87 minutes and after three minutes' stoppage time, gave Scotland the biggest win over Northern Ireland since 1963.
1999 S. Ho Operations & Quality Managem. i. 22 The allowable stoppage time per day is set at 20 minutes.
2003 Toronto Metro 3 Apr. 16/3 David Beckham..scored with a stoppage time penalty.
2014 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 1 Feb. Maguire struck in the fifth minute of stoppage time to win the game for the hosts at Hillsborough.
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