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stoppages

stoppages noun: salary deductions. Also the plural of stoppage.

Noun

stoppages

  1. (UK) Salary deductions.
    • The cashier finished counting off the money; the boy dragged the whole down the counter to Mr. Winterbottom, to whom the stoppages for rent and tools must be paid.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Also used as

stoppages is also the plural of stoppage.

Questions about stoppages

What does stoppages mean?
Stoppages means salary deductions.
What part of speech is stoppages?
Stoppages is a noun.

Words near stoppages in the dictionary

  1. stoppability
  2. stoppable
  3. stoppage
  4. stoppage time
  5. stoppage times
  6. stoppages
  7. stoppaniite
  8. Stoppard
  9. Stoppardesque
  10. Stoppardian
  11. stopped

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