outage
pronunciation
How to pronounce outage in British English:
UK [ˈaʊtɪdʒ]
How to pronounce outage in American English:
US [ˈaʊtɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation
- a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers)
Word Origin
- outage (n.)
- "period or condition in which electrical power is disconnected," 1903, American English; formed from out on model of shortage.
Example
- 1. The power outage wreaked havoc on businesses and travelers .
- 2. Northeast power outage of more than 4 million .
- 3. Some sites like foursquare took the outage in stride .
- 4. North east line , sengoku-way line and the lines are outage senzan .
- 5. The 1989 quebec storm didn 't cause widespread transformer damage and the outage ended after nine hours .