work stoppage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of work stoppage
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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The league and the NFL Referees Assn. have avoided a work stoppage by agreeing on a new collective bargaining agreement that runs through the 2032 season.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
As with earlier strikes, during the 2019 teachers walkout, administrators crossed teachers’ picket lines to keep schools open and hold things together — overseeing food distribution and student supervision during the six-day work stoppage.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The optics of a work stoppage are not good for anyone, Pereira said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Scandals at the top of both player associations have left them severely weakened as one faces a possible work stoppage and the other discusses an expanded schedule.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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