work stoppage

Questions about work stoppage

What does work stoppage mean?

work stoppage means "a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions".

What is another word for work stoppage?

Close synonyms include strike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is work stoppage a common word?

work stoppage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for work stoppage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.