• stopwork,stop work

Fromstop(“to cease; to cause to cease”,verb) +‎work(noun).^[1] Attested from the 20th century.

stop-work (pluralstop-works)

1. (usuallyattributive) A temporarycessation of work.
   1. (chieflyAustralia,New Zealand) Temporary cessation of labor as a form ofprotest.

      Synonyms:walkout,strike

      astop-work meeting

      • 1942, New Zealand Department of Labour,Awards, Agreements, Orders, Etc., page1213:

        41. Nostop-work meeting shall be held at the mine without the permission of the manager.

      • 1999 April 13, “NZ Post staff to hold stop-works”, inDominion, Wellington, page 7:

        MORE than 4000 NZ Post workers will begin a series of nationwidestop-work meetings today to discuss what their union has said is privatisation by the back door.

      • 2016 September 14, “Adelaide train strike to hit network as drivers stop work”, inABC Premium News, Sydney:

        Train drivers across Adelaide will walk off the job today to attend astop-work meeting about their enterprise bargaining negotiations.

      • 2022 April 11, Kieran Rooney, quoting Mike McNess, “Bins set to overflow as Cleanway waste workers vote to go on strike”, inHerald Sun, Melbourne:

        Workers at Cleanaway do not make the decision to takestop work action lightly and are aware of the unfortunate impact this will have on the community.

      • 2022 September 27, David Killick, Bob Inglis, “Tasmanian child care services experiencing demand spike as teachers prepare industrial action”, inThe Mercury, Hobart:

        State schools will be closed until 10.30am on Wednesday due to a decision by the Australian Education Union to call a two-hourstop-work meeting involving both teachers and teacher assistants.

   2. (chieflyCanada,US) Causing work to cease temporarily for administrative reasons such as safety concerns or legal action.

      astop-work order.

      • 1944, United States Congress,Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944,page781:

        The Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Interior has appealed to the War Production Board for reconsideration of thestop-work order of December 12, 1942, on the Newton project, Cache County, Utah

      • 2000 May 27, Coleman Warner, “Morial halts razing of building that contained funeral home”, inTimes-Picayune, New Orleans, page B3:

        [Mayor Mark] Morial issued astop-work order to suspend the razing of the building

      • 2002 December 17, Karen Hill, “Courthouse evades stop-work order”, inThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, page D7:

        Thestop-work order, Saxon said, was an attempt to "pretty much get this resolved, to get it done." Decatur officials have said the main issue in the dispute is safety, primarily making the county comply with its stricter fire safety codes.

      • 2018 April 23, Edith Bevin, “Mount Lyell mine stop-work order not acted on before fatal mud rush, inquest told”, inABC Premium News, Sydney:

        The inquest into the death of Michael Welsh at the Mount Lyell mine in 2014 heard the mine manager, Jared DeRoss, had made thestop work order during the management meeting held daily at 7:15am.

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