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say it: STAH-pij
stoppage is a noun meaning "the state of inactivity following an interruption". It is pronounced /ˈstɑpɪdʒ/ — STAH-pij. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the state of inactivity following an interruption
“the negotiations were in arrest”
“held them in check”
“during the halt he got some lunch”
“the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow”
“he spent the entire stop in his seat”
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
“we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”
the act of stopping something
“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
“his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stoppage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.