blockage

English

Etymology

block +‎ -age

Pronunciation

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Noun

blockage (countable and uncountable, plural blockages)

1. The state of being blocked.
   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:

     Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.

2. A thing that is blocking; an obstruction.

   There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.

Translations

state of being blocked

• Bulgarian: задръстване (bg) n (zadrǎstvane), блокиране (bg) n (blokirane)
• Danish: forstoppelse (da) c
• Finnish: esto (fi)
• German: Blockade (de) f, Stopp (de) m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilstopping m or f

  Nynorsk: tilstopping f

• Russian: блок (ru) m (blok), блокада (ru) f (blokada), затор (ru) m (zator)
• Spanish: estancamiento (es)

thing blocking

• Bulgarian: пречка (bg) f (prečka), запушване (bg) n (zapušvane)
• Finnish: este (fi)
• German: Hindernis (de) n

• Greek: φραγμός (el) m (fragmós) (fragmos), φράγμα (el) n (frágma) (fragma)
• Polish: blokada (pl) f
• Spanish: tapón