stoppage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stop=page

CIDE DICTIONARY

stoppage, n. 

 The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stoppage, n.
1 the condition of being blocked or stopped.
2 a stopping (of pay).
3 a stopping or interruption of work in a factory etc.

THESAURUS

stoppage

Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, Z, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, afterthought, akinetic epilepsy, apodosis, apoplexy, arrest, arrestation, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bar, barrier, bell, bind, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, cardiac epilepsy, catastrophe, ceasing, cecum, cessation, check, checkmate, choking, choking off, clog, clonic spasm, clonus, coda, conclusion, congestion, constipation, consummation, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, costiveness, crack of doom, cramp, cul-de-sac, culmination, cursive epilepsy, curtain, curtains, cutoff, dead end, dead stop, deadlock, death, debarment, decease, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, denouement, destination, destiny, detention, determent, deterrence, discouragement, diurnal epilepsy, doom, double take, dragging, eclampsia, effect, embolism, embolus, end, end point, endgame, ending, envoi, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epilogue, eschatology, estoppel, expiration, falling sickness, fate, final solution, final twitch, final whistle, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fit, focal epilepsy, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, frenzy, full stop, goal, gorge, grand mal, grinding halt, gun, halt, hang-up, haute mal, hindrance, holdup, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, interim, izzard, jam, lag, lagging, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latent epilepsy, latter end, lockjaw, lockout, logjam, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, moratorium, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, obviation, occlusion, omega, paperasserie, paroxysm, pause, payoff, period, peroration, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, quietus, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reflex epilepsy, reprieve, resolution, respite, resting place, retardance, retardation, rotatoria, sealing off, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sit-down strike, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, spasm, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stay of execution, stop, stopping, stopping place, strangulation, strike, stroke, suspension, swan song, tardy epilepsy, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tie-up, time lag, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, visitation, wait, walkout, windup, work stoppage

ROGET THESAURUS

stoppage

Hindrance

N hindrance, prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage, embolus, embolism, infarct, interruption, interception, interclusion, hindrance, impedition, retardment, retardation, embarrassment, oppilation, coarctation, stricture, restriction, restraint, inhibition, blockade, interference, interposition, obtrusion, discouragement, discountenance, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag, check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil, bar, stile, barrier, turnstile, turnpike, gate, portcullis, beaver dam, trocha, barricade, wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne, bulkhead, block, buffer, stopper, boom, dam, weir, burrock, drawback, objection, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, lion in the path, snag, snags and sawyers, encumbrance, incumbrance, clog, skid, shoe, spoke, drag, drag chain, drag weight, stay, stop, preventive, prophylactic, load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta, dead weight, lumber, pack, nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea, remora, difficulty, insuperable, obstacle, estoppel, ill wind, head wind, trammel, tether, hold back, counterpoise, damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy, party pooper, party crasher, interloper, trail of a red herring, opponent, hindering, obstructive, obstruent, impeditive, impedient, intercipient, prophylactic, impedimentary, in the way of, unfavorable, onerous, burdensome, cumbrous, cumbersome, obtrusive, hindered, windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden, hard pressed, unassisted &c (assist), single-handed, alone, deserted, occurrent nubes.

Cessation

N cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence, intermission, remission, suspense, suspension, interruption, stop, stopping, closure, stoppage, halt, arrival, pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop, interregnum, abeyance, cloture, dead stop, dead stand, dead lock, finis, cerrado, blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration, comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop, end, death, I pause for a reply.