shutoffs

noun

plural of shutoff
as in cessations
the stopping of a process or activity the utility company threatened them with the shutoff of electricity if the bills weren't paid

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Recent Examples of shutoffs National Weather Service Los Angeles County officials urged residents to prepare for public safety power shutoffs on Saturday and unplanned outages caused by wind damage. — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026 There are some questions about sudden intelligence shutoffs and delays of important weapons. — Kelli Wessinger, Vox, 31 Oct. 2026 The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners moved Tuesday to immediately suspend residential water and electricity service shutoffs due to nonpayment for the rest of the year after a period of unusually high utility bills. — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026 In Shasta County, the potential shutoffs are concentrated along Highway 299 near Round Mountain and Montgomery Creek, northeast of Redding. — Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shutoffs
  1. cessations
  2. halts
  3. endings
  4. closures
  5. shutdowns
  6. ends
  7. stoppages
Noun
  • Temporary cessations of hostility, but no permanent closing of the moral and social divide between debtor and creditor, and no giving up on the thought that some lives matter more than others.
    — Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of cessations
Noun
  • Seko nonetheless expects temporary gate suspensions and pilotage halts for Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen and Fuzhou from Friday night through Monday, with intermittent pilotage suspensions at Yangshan across the same window.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
  • That was March 2020, when the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler tried to coordinate production halts over Covid-19 fears, only to be warned by their lawyers that doing so could violate antitrust rules.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of halts
Noun
  • The main reason the Giants have a chance to win every week, though, despite all their injuries and heart-stopping endings, is that Jameis Winston is playing well as their starting quarterback.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Dramatic — and sometimes controversial — endings were the story of a wild college football Saturday, with late-game calls deciding some outcomes and potentially having an effect on how the College Football Playoff shapes up a couple months from now.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of endings
Noun
  • The Utah Navajo Health System posted about highway closures and detours.
    — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The Utah Navajo Health System posted several active highway closures, with detours.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of closures
Noun
  • The last fiscal year has seen three government shutdowns, the longest of which lasted for 76 days.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026
  • For existing light water reactors, LEU+ means plants can run much longer between refueling shutdowns, cutting maintenance costs and keeping reliable zero-carbon electricity flowing to the grid with fewer interruptions.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of shutdowns
Noun
  • From there, the process works similarly to a battery, with negative (anode) and a positive (cathode) ends surrounding an electrolyte layer.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
  • If entire branches are dying or needles at the ends of branches begin to die, there could be another issue impacting the tree that’s worth investigating.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of ends
Noun
  • Greaves played his part well in a 62-ball knock while dealing with stoppages for bad light.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Boston Dynamics has also redesigned its exterior panels to withstand falling boxes and repositioned the emergency stop button to reduce accidental safety stoppages.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of stoppages

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“Shutoffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shutoffs. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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