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say it: STAH-pij
stoppage is a noun meaning "the state of inactivity following an interruption". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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.