How to Use work stoppage in a Sentence

work stoppage

noun
Definition of work stoppagenext
  • The actors work stoppage passed the three-month mark on Oct. 14.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The strikes come just two years after the union engaged in work stoppages at the ports.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 11 July 2024
  • The union has not endured a work stoppage since it was locked out by the studios in 1988.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 July 2024
  • In the year since forming the union, Pineapple Street staffers have yet to stage any kind of work stoppage.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Adjustments have been put in place to menus in case of a work stoppage.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Even the threat of a work stoppage could tangle the nation’s supply chains.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The club’s first season in Texas in 1972 was also delayed a week by a work stoppage.
    — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • So did shortstop Corey Seager, who left the Dodgers to sign a 10-year deal with the Rangers two days before the work stoppage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • When the 99-day work stoppage in Major League Baseball ended on March 10, the sport surged back to life.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In the midst of the biggest wave of work stoppages since the 1970s, Riley notes, labor unions and strikes are almost nowhere to be seen on screen.
    — Emma Silvers, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2023
  • Yet the idea persists that the UAW’s contract stance is the governing factor in the effect of a work stoppage.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Their 42-day work stoppage began and ended all within the span of the much longer writers strike.
    — Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Opening day was to have been March 31 but has been wiped out by baseball’s ninth work stoppage.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The work stoppage was a new blow to Haiti’s anemic economy.
    — Time, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In both cases, the vote is just the first step on a path that rarely if ever ends in an actual work stoppage.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • The six-week work stoppage cost GM $3.6 billion and had broad impact across the industry.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2023
  • There is so much work remaining and not enough fear of the far-reaching impact of a work stoppage.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Braves are coming out of the work stoppage with more uncertainty than most.
    — Jake Seiner, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The United Auto Workers strike has the potential to become one of the largest work stoppages in the past three decades.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for writers.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for some writers.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The one-day strike was the first newsroom work stoppage in the newspaper's 142-year history.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Many teams and free agents, assuming a lockout was coming, rushed to complete deals in the days ahead of the work stoppage.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The strike by the writers, which began in May, has already run longer than the union’s previous work stoppage in 2007.
    — Christopher Palmeri, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Baseball is now on the precipice of losing regular season games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1995.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Heaney, who signed as a free agent just before the work stoppage began, likely will be built up to the five-inning mark.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In part due to the effects of last year’s work stoppages, there are fewer big movies hitting theaters.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • Still, the sides agreed to meet for a third day in a row Wednesday, the 84th day of the second-longest work stoppage in baseball history.
    — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Here's what to know about the labor fight, which would be the first mass work stoppage at eastern ports in nearly half a century.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • This work stoppage has had and is expected to continue to have negative impacts on our key suppliers and customers.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2024

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