stop the job

English

Verb

stop the job (third-person singular simple present stops the job, present participle stopping the job, simple past and past participle stopped the job)

  1. (UK, rail transport, colloquial) To completely stop all traffic.
    • 1999, Stanley Hall, quoting train driver in the 1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Hidden Dangers: Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation:
      Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor.
    • 2018 April 21, “What the drivers think of the ‘66s’…”, in RAIL Magazine‎[1]:
      Just one ‘in traffic’ failure in ten years for me. But it was a good ’un and stopped the job entirely for a few hours...!
    • 2025 April 29, Paul Darlington, “Railway 200: Signalling”, in Rail Engineer Magazine:
      However, any power or equipment failures ‘stop the job’ and are disruptive to railway operations.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop,‎ the,‎ job.
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