outage
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈaʊtɪdʒ/
- The state's CRED might experience widespread power outages and suffer from damaged power lines.
- a power outage
- planned outage
- cause a power outage
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- I really want to talk about the cell phone outages.
- At the time, this charged plasma impacted the Earth and caused widespread Telegraph outages in North America and Europe.
- Throughout Monday morning, DeepSeek experienced outages which they said were caused by high traffic, and they temporarily limited registrations.
- Unfortunately, we were able to divert power such that it did not cause a massive outage in Silicon Valley.
- And what that means is that a single outage or a single disruption can have cascading effects in ways that lead to supply shortages and lead to price increases as well.
Examples
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The fourth disaster involved a power outage that interrupted the company's data processing.
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The severe storm caused a widespread outage that left thousands without electricity for several hours.
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The power outage got us too.
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Has the outage hit you yet?
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I think it's just a power outage.
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Big power outage knocked out my alarm clock.
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- Due to the power outage, we cannot accept credit cards, ATM cards, or personal checks.
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Rescue efforts have been hampered by power outages all along the coast.
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The power outage to our to our AV, the people running the projector and the audio went out during Adam's presentation.
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One assumes I don't know because this morning there was a massive global Internet outage that affected news giants like CNN and the New York Times.
Synonyms
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2.9
Not working because of a fault or repair
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3.9
A time when the power goes off and places go dark
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2.1
Not working so you cannot use it, like a machine or toilet
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3.0
A time when the electricity goes off
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6.8
A sudden loss of electricity that makes a place dark
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4.1
A time when a machine or system is not working, for example during repairs
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3.5
Not working or available to use, often for a short time
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3.4
A sudden loss of electricity in an area
Antonyms
Compounds
How Severe
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4.1
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3.9
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4.0
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3.0
- Specialized
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5.8
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
outage = (transparent) = out + age
The meaning 'period when a service is not available' follows directly from 'out' (not functioning) plus a nominalizer. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Outage comes from out and the ending -age, which can mean 'a time when something is out'. So a power outage is simply the time the electricity is 'out', and a website outage is when the site is 'out' of service.