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From stand + still. Compare Dutch stilstand (“standstill”), German Stillstand (“standstill”), Danish stilstand (“standstill”).
standstill (countable and uncountable, plural standstills)
- Complete immobility; halt.
The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours.
1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184:[...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, [...].
2012, James C. Spohrer, Louis E. Freund, Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering[1]:For the caller the advantage relies on a fast solution of his service request, leading to less standstill and non-productive periods for the service customer.
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complete immobility
- Azerbaijani: durğunluq
- Bulgarian: засто́й (bg) m (zastój), безде́йствие (bg) n (bezdéjstvie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 停頓/停顿 (zh) (tíngdùn)
- Danish: stilstand m
- Dutch: stilstand (nl)
- Esperanto: halto
- Finnish: pysähtyminen (fi)
- French: arrêt (fr) m, immobilisation (fr) f, paralysie (fr) f, surplace (fr) m
- Galician: paralización (gl) f
- Georgian: უძრაობა (uʒraoba), უმოქმედობა (umokmedoba), გაჩერება (gačereba), შეჩერება (šečereba), შეწყვეტა (šec̣q̇veṭa)
- German: Stillstand (de) m
- Hungarian: mozdulatlanság (hu), leállás (hu), megállás (hu), szünetelés (hu), üzemszünet (hu), holtpont (hu), bénultság (hu), nyugalmi állapot/helyzet
- Interlingua: immobilisation, paralyse
- Irish: stad (ga) m
- Italian: fermata (it), blocco (it) m, fermo (it) m, arresto (it) m, punto morto m, stallo (it) m, vicolo cieco m, stasi (it) f, stanca (it) f
- Japanese: 停止 (ja) (ていし, teishi), 停頓 (ja) (ていとん, teiton)
- Latin: immobilizatio
- Macedonian: за́стој m (zástoj), безде́јствие n (bezdéjstvie), бе́здејство n (bézdejstvo)
- Maori: whakamāraritanga
- Norwegian: stillstand (no)
- Polish: zastój (pl) m
- Portuguese: paralisação (pt)
- Romanian: oprit (ro), imobilizat (ro)
- Russian: остано́вка (ru) f (ostanóvka), засто́й (ru) m (zastój), безде́йствие (ru) n (bezdéjstvije), просто́й (ru) m (prostój) (esp. at work)
- Spanish: parada (es)
- Vietnamese: bế tắc (vi), dừng (vi)
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