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means A pause or halt in something ongoing — most often used for a work stoppage, a stoppage in play, or a stoppage of pay, where whatever should be flowing simply stops.

from Straightforward stuff: built from the verb 'stop' plus the noun-forming suffix '-age' (the same pattern as 'breakage' or 'blockage'). 'Stop' itself traces back through Old English 'stoppian' to a Late Latin notion of plugging something with a stopper — so a stoppage is, at root, just the state of being plugged up.