stop payment

But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
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That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
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Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
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The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government.
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Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?
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"But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.
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Yet when I stop gazing the next impulse is to move on; for if I have time to rest anywhere, why not at home?
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British Dictionary definitions for stop payment

stop payment

noun

an instruction to a bank by the drawer of a cheque to refuse payment on it

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stop payment

Instruct a bank not to honor a check one has drawn, as in If that check was lost, we'll have to stop payment on it before issuing another. This usage was first recorded in 1722.

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