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Stoppage vs Barricade - What's the difference?

stoppage | barricade | Related terms |

Stoppage is a related term of barricade.


As a noun stoppage

is a pause or halt of some activity.

As a verb barricade is

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stoppage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pause or halt of some activity.
  • Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity, a blockage.

    • barricade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
  • An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
  • * Derham
    • Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
  • (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "barricade") *

    Verb

  • to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
  • to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port