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stopwork

stopwork is the alternative form of stop-work.

Meaning of stop-work

Noun

stop-work (plural stop-works)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, attributive, usually) Temporary cessation of labor as a form of protest.
    • a stop-work meeting
    Synonyms:
    walkout, strike
  2. (Canada, US, attributive, usually) Causing work to cease temporarily for administrative reasons such as safety concerns or legal action.
    • a stop-work order.

Forms of stopwork

pluralstopworks

Questions about stopwork

What is stopwork the alternative form of?
Stopwork is the alternative form of stop-work.

Words near stopwork in the dictionary

  1. stopwatching
  2. stopway
  3. stopways
  4. stopword
  5. stopwords
  6. stopwork
  7. stopworks
  8. stoquastic
  9. storabilities
  10. storability
  11. storable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stopwork (page history and authors); stop-work (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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