stoppages

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noun

Salary deductions.

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of stoppage
  2. UKSalary deductions.

    The cashier finished counting off the money; the boy dragged the whole down the counter to Mr. Winterbottom, to whom the stoppages for rent and tools must be paid.

    1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
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Chicago

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