Word of the Day:
outage
What It Means
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
Outage in Context
“[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...”
Did You Know?
From out + -age, on the model of shortage.
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