单词 | stop-work |
释义 | stop-workadj. 1. Australian and New Zealand. Designating a meeting that requires employees to stop working in order to attend. Also elliptical as n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > stopping work > meeting which requires employees to stop work stop-workc1926 c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 25 With their silly bluff and twaddle, And their stop-work meetings, too, By which I'm not allowed to work Till their business is through. 1941 Argus (Melbourne) 15 Nov. 3/6 A stopwork meeting of builders' workers. 1941 Argus (Melbourne) 15 Nov. 3/6 Mr. Howitt said congress regretted the stopwork meeting. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) x. 138 Jack Starbrace called a little stop-work meeting and addressed it. 1957 Landfall 11 Apr. 278 But it was a good day for a stop-work. 1977 N.Z. Listener 15 Jan. 6/4 A great many immigrants, probably the majority, were never involved in any kind of trade unionism in Britain and would not have recognised a ‘stop-work’ meeting if they had actually fallen over one! 2. North American. Designating an order requiring work to stop. ΚΠ 1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 28 June 1/1 The federal cabinet has authorized a stop-work order. 1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 26 July 2/1 This is an article 78 proceeding to rescind a ‘stop work’ order issued by the New York City Department of Buildings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). > as lemmasstop-work stop-work n. a mechanism to prevent the overwinding of the spring of a watch, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of nut1428 peise1428 plumbc1450 Jack1498 clockwork1516 larum1542 Jack of the clockhouse1563 watch-wheel1568 work1570 plummeta1578 Jack of the clock1581 snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 pointer1596 quarter jack1604 mainspring1605 winder1606 notch-wheel1611 fusee1622 count-wheel1647 jack-wheel1647 frame1658 arbor1659 balance1660 fuse1674 hour-figure1675 stop1675 pallet1676 regulator1676 cock1678 movement1678 detent1688 savage1690 clock1696 pinwheel1696 starred wheel1696 swing-wheel1696 warning-wheel1696 watch1696 watch-part1696 hoop-wheel1704 hour-wheel1704 snail1714 step-wheel1714 tide-work1739 train1751 crutch1753 cannon pinion1764 rising board1769 remontoire1774 escapement1779 clock jack1784 locking plate1786 scapement1789 motion work1795 anchor escapement1798 scape1798 star-wheel1798 recoil escapement1800 recoiling pallet1801 recoiling scapement1801 cannon1802 hammer-tail1805 recoiling escapement1805 bottle jack1810 renovating spring1812 quarter-boy1815 pin tooth1817 solar wheel1819 impulse-teeth1825 pendulum wheel1825 pallet arbor1826 rewinder1826 rack hook1829 snail-wheel1831 quarter bell1832 tow1834 star pulley1836 watch train1838 clock train1843 raising-piece1843 wheelwork1843 gravity escapement1850 jumper1850 vertical escapement1850 time train1853 pin pallet1860 spade1862 dead well1867 stop-work1869 ringer1873 strike-or-silent1875 warning-piece1875 guard-pin1879 pendulum cock1881 warning-lever1881 beat-pin1883 fusee-piece1884 fusee-snail1884 shutter1884 tourbillion1884 tumbler1884 virgule1884 foliot1899 grasshopper1899 grasshopper escapement1899 trunk1899 pin lever1908 clock spring1933 1869 Horolog. Jrnl. 1 Apr. 91/1 Dispensing with stop works, which..are objectionable when economy is an object. < adj.c1926 as lemmas |
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