Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stop the job

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.21 in modern English

Syllables: stop the job
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To completely stop all traffic.

British usage; Colloquial

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, job.

Example Sentences

"Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor."
"Just one ‘in traffic’ failure in ten years for me. But it was a good ’un and stopped the job entirely for a few hours...!"
"However, any power or equipment failures ‘stop the job’ and are disruptive to railway operations."

Usage

British usage
Colloquial

Inflected Forms

stops the job (present, singular) stopping the job (participle, present) stopped the job (participle, past) stopped the job (past)

Questions

What does stop the job mean?: To completely stop all traffic.

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