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stop the job en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, colloquial) To completely stop all traffic.
    • Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor. 1999, Stanley Hall, quoting train driver in the 1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Hidden Dangers: Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation:
    • However, any power or equipment failures ‘stop the job’ and are disruptive to railway operations. 2025 April 29, Paul Darlington, “Railway 200: Signalling”, in Rail Engineer Magazine:
    • 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...! 2018 April 21, “What the drivers think of the ‘66s’…”, in RAIL Magazine:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, job.

Forms

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stopped the job Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stopped the job Tense=Past lexicographic
stopping the job Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stops the job Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic