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outages

outages is the plural of outage.

Meaning of outage

Noun

outage (plural outages)

  1. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
    • [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July...2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023
    Synonyms:
    blackout, power cut
  2. The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.

Phrases with outages

Questions about outages

What is outages the plural of?
Outages is the plural of outage.

Words near outages in the dictionary

  1. Outagamie
  2. Outagamie County
  3. Outagamies
  4. Outagamis
  5. outage
  6. outages
  7. outambush
  8. outambushed
  9. outambushes
  10. outambushing
  11. Outaouais

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