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 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 Power shutoffs, camera networks, aggressive firefighting tactics and measures to make homes more resistant to fire all play a role. — Steve Large, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 The planned shutoffs had started for some customers by Wednesday night. — ABC News, 15 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
  • 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
  • The automatic stay halts proceedings but doesn't compel creditors to undo pre-petition filings without operative effect.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 27 June 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
  • Workers who lose their jobs without warning bear the brunt of factory closures, Tola said.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Over a year later, those closures have slowed, and a variety of restaurants and entertainment venues have opened or are set to debut in the Upper Westside area.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of closures
Noun
  • Because the core carries more energy, power plants can stretch the intervals between mandatory refueling shutdowns.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Much of the recent alarm stems from AI labs’ own stress tests—and their, at times, tardy or less-than-fulsome disclosures—in which frontier models are pushed to deceive, break rules, or resist shutdowns.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of shutdowns
Noun
  • Naz Reid struck fire midway through the fourth, executing, in quick succession, plays on both ends of the court.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The bloody slayings unfolded about three miles apart, near the southern and northern ends of University Ave.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of ends
Noun
  • Look at the work stoppages from the [Hollywood labor strikes] three years ago.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • There is already a feeling among many supporters that the time spent poring over marginal decisions — all those interminable stoppages for calls that are going to cause dissatisfaction, whatever the outcome — is far too much.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of stoppages

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“Shutoffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shutoffs. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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