What does blockage mean?
Blockage means (uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked..
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/ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
(uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked..
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
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Blockage means (uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked..
Common synonyms include obstruction, occlusion, block, closure.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
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