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Definition of Stoppages
1. stoppage [n] - See also: stoppage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoppages
Literary usage of Stoppages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Engineering: A Guide to the Construction of Works of Sewerage and by Baldwin Latham (1878)
"Proportion of stoppages to length of sewers. about nineteen miles of sewers were
constructed, varying in size from 4 inches to 21 inches internal diameter. ..."
2. Sanitary Engineering: A Guide to the Construction of Works of Sewerage and by Baldwin Latham (1878)
"Proportion of stoppages to length of sewers. about nineteen miles of sewers were
constructed, varying in size from 4 inches to 21 inches internal diameter. ..."
3. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"X., that on the English railways the average speed in motion is 32 miles, and
the average speed including stoppages, 24^ miles. ..."
4. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1900)
"Occasionally stoppages occur in the service pipes caused by an accumulation of
water, condensed liquid hydrocarbons, or naphthalene. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Lading by William Wagener Porter (1891)
"THE exception " riots, strikes and stoppages of labor" is of such recent addition
to the forms of bills of lading in common use that as yet it lacks ..."
6. Code of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec: Comprising the School by Québec (Province), Paul de Cazes, Québec (Province (1889)
"The widow is not allowed to pay the stoppages which her husband neglected to pay
for the years of service previous to the 24th July, 1880. RSQ, art. 2255. ..."
7. Gas-engines and Producer-gas Plants: A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the by Rodolphe Edgard Mathot (1905)
"As a rule with generators employing anthracite coal, it is sufficient to empty
the ash-pit twice daily; this should be preferably done during stoppages. ..."
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