stop the job

present singular third person stops the job · participle present stopping the job · participle past stopped the job · past stopped the job

1. UKcolloquialrail transportTo completely stop all traffic.

   However, any power or equipment failures ‘stop the job’ and are disruptive to railway operations.

   2025 April 29, Paul Darlington, “Railway 200: Signalling”, in Rail Engineer Magazine

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   Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor.

   1999, Stanley Hall, quoting train driver in the 1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Hidden Dangers: Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation

   Just one ‘in traffic’ failure in ten years for me. But it was a good ’un and stopped the job entirely for a few hours...!

   2018 April 21, “What the drivers think of the ‘66s’…”, in RAIL Magazine

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, job.