standstill
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standstill |
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arrest, bell, blind alley, box, cessation, check, checkmate, corner,
cul-de-sac, cutoff, dead-end street, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock, dying down, ebb, ebbing, end, endgame, ending, extremity, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, hole, impasse, lock, lockout, pause, sit-down strike, stalemate, stand, standoff, stay, stillstand, stop, stoppage, strike, subsidence, walkout, wane, waning,
work stoppage
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at a standstill |
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adamant, adamantine, as
is, as per usual, as things are, as usual, at a halt, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at an impasse, at anchor, baffled,
bewildered, dead-still, firm,
fixed, frozen, idle, immobile, immotile, immotive,
immovable, inactive, inflexible, irremovable, motionless, moveless, mystified, nonplussed, out of commission, pat, perplexed, quiescent, riding at anchor, rigid, sedentary, standpat, static, stationary, statuelike, still, stock-still, stuck, stumped, unactive, unemployed, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unyielding
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Main entries similar to: standstill
arrest, bell, blind alley, box, cessation, check, checkmate, corner, cutoff, dead end, dead stop, deadlock, dilemma, draw, ebb, end, ending, extremity,
full stop, gun, halt, hole, impasse, lock, lockout, sit-down strike,
stalemate, stand, standoff, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, subsidence,
walkout, wane, work stoppage
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