stoppage

Converse of object

• cause: Close behind, Gafurov comes a cropper on the pits bend, causing a stoppage.
• avoid: In this situation the government has to appoint its own managers for the mines in order to avoid the stoppage of production.
• follow: The restart of play following a stoppage for an offside offense, is an indirect free kick to the defending team.

Preposition: in

• play: Entry into the field of play will only be allowed during a stoppage in play.

Adjective modifier

• all-out: Talks between managers and trade unions aimed at preventing an all-out stoppage at the plant are to continue on Monday.
• 24-hour: The 24-hour stoppage in July is set to be followed by another on November 9th.
• lengthy: A lengthy power stoppage could have resulted in some submarines sinking.
• one-day: They called for a one-day stoppage on May 13.
• planned: A planned 48-hour stoppage at the BBC has been called off while unions consult members on a new peace offer.
• sudden: A sudden stoppage of a number of looms would cause immediate distress throughout Spitalfields.

Modifies a noun

• equalizer: That included a stoppage time winner and two stoppage time equalizers as fortune started to favor them.
• time: Five minutes into first half stoppage time, Hyde's three game barren scoring run came to an end from an unlikely source.
• winner: Oliver scored Germany's stoppage time winner against Poland in Dortmund in their second game of the 2006 World Cup finals.
• goal: A goal up for 86 minutes and rarely in danger, only to concede a stoppage time goal struck from all of 30 yards!

Noun used with modifier

• winter: Heavens knows why BW do not remove these during winter stoppage work.
• half: Five minutes into first half stoppage time, Hyde's three game barren scoring run came to an end from an unlikely source.
• emergency: Staffs & Worcs Canal Wolverley Lock was closed for an emergency stoppage from 24 May to 3 June.
• round: Power, unbeaten in 19 fights, beat challenger Isaac Ward from Darlington in an eighth round stoppage.
• hour: If we have to take action I suggest a 48 hour stoppage from a suitable Thursday midnight.
• race: As ever with a race stoppage, the countback rule came into play.