Outage (noun)

A temporary suspension of service, especially of electrical power or the internet.

Origin:

From out + age, probably influenced by outage in the sense "failure", from obsolete french autage ("an interruption"), from old french autage, autaige, from à ("to") + taige ("tim.e")

Examples:

  1. The power outage caused by the storm left many residents without electricity for several days.
  2. The internet outage caused difficulties for people trying to work from home.
  3. The company experienced an unexpected outage of its website.
  4. The telephone outage was caused by a problem with the network.
  5. The water outage was caused by a broken pipe.
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