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English Vocabulary: outage

English Vocabulary: outage. Outages can happen to power, IT, electricity, and other services. This past week, July 19th, Microsoft caused a massive IT outage on a global scale. Learn more here.

OUTAGE

  • When a service does not work for a period of time
    • There were widescale power-outages all accross the US.
    • There will be a sceduled outage of water tomorrow morning from 8am to noon.

collocations with outage

  1. suffer a power outage
  2. there is/was a power outage
  3. cause a power outage
  4. fix, repair the outage
  5. looking for the cause of the outage
  6. intermittent, frequent power outages
  7. power outages are not uncommon [in, for]
  8. a system, database, network outage
  9. a planned, programmed, scheduled outage
  10. massive, widescale power outage

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