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单词 stop-work
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stop-workadj.

/ˈstɒpwəːk/
Forms: Also as one word.
Etymology: < stop v. + work n.
1. Australian and New Zealand. Designating a meeting that requires employees to stop working in order to attend. Also elliptical as n.
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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.
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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).

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stop-work
stop-work n. a mechanism to prevent the overwinding of the spring of a watch, etc.
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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.
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