1. 停工;罷工 When there is a stoppage, people stop working because of a disagreement with their employers.
e.g. Mineworkers in the Ukraine have voted for a one-day stoppage next month. 烏克蘭礦工們已投票決定下個(gè)月罷工一天。
2. (足球等體育運動(dòng)中的)中斷比賽，暫停 In football and some other sports, when there is a stoppage, the game stops for a short time, for example because a player is injured. The referee may add some extra time at the end of the game because of this.
stoppage的解釋
in AM, use 美國英語(yǔ)用 time out
stoppage英英釋義
noun
1. the act of stopping something
e.g. the third baseman made some remarkable stops his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood
Synonym: stop
2. an obstruction in a pipe or tube
e.g. we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
Synonym: blockageblockclosureocclusionstop
3. the state of inactivity following an interruption
e.g. the negotiations were in arrest held them in check during the halt he got some lunch the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow he spent the entire stop in his seat