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stop-phrases

stop-phrases is the plural of stop-phrase.

Meaning of stop-phrase

Noun

stop-phrase (plural stop-phrases)

  1. A phrase consisting of one or more words, usually in a series, that is ignored by a search engine.
    • Suppose that “take it easy” were a stop-phrase. Then, if a user searches for “take it easy tonight”, the user will see the same results as if he/she typed merely “tonight” assuming the latter is not similarly on the stop list.

Questions about stop-phrases

What is stop-phrases the plural of?
Stop-phrases is the plural of stop-phrase.

Words near stop-phrases in the dictionary

  1. stop-motions
  2. stop-off
  3. stop-over
  4. stop-overs
  5. stop-phrase
  6. stop-phrases
  7. stop-start
  8. stop-tap
  9. stop-taps
  10. stop-time
  11. stop-work

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stop-phrases (page history and authors); stop-phrase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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