How to pronounce“outage”in English
home in May 2011 I got this note on my house boil water notification due to a loss of water pressure from a power
outage at the water plant where I live the Ridgewood Village Water System uh we required all public water system users
to boil their water until further notice the power went out and therefore the water went out so we couldn't guarantee the water was clean so we had to boil
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Definitions of “outage”
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
“[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.”
The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.