stop the job
stop the job verb: to completely stop all traffic.
Verb
stop the job (third-person singular simple present stops the job, present participle stopping the job, simple past and past participle stopped the job)
- To completely stop all traffic.
- Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor.1999, Stanley Hall, quoting train driver in the 1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Hidden Dangers: Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation
- Just one ‘in traffic’ failure in ten years for me. But it was a good ’un and stopped the job entirely for a few hours...!2018 April 21, “What the drivers think of the ‘66s’…”, in RAIL Magazine
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, job.
Forms of stop the job
| third-person singular present | stops the job |
|---|---|
| present participle | stopping the job |
| past participle | stopped the job |
| past | stopped the job |
Questions about stop the job
- What does stop the job mean?
- Stop the job means to completely stop all traffic.
- What part of speech is stop the job?
- Stop the job is a verb.
- What is the past tense of stop the job?
- The past tense of stop the job is stopped the job.
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