from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb Law To impede or prohibit by estoppel.
transitive verb Archaic To stop up.
from The Century Dictionary.
To bar; stop; debar; specifically, in law, to bar, prevent, or preclude, usually by one's own act. See estoppel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb (Law) To impede or bar by estoppel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb To impede or bar by estoppel.
verb To stop up, to plug
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English estoppen, from Anglo-Norman estopper, from Vulgar Latin *stuppāre, to stop up; see stop.]
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Anglo-Norman and Old French estoper, from a Late Latin verb, from Classical Latin noun stuppa ("oakum").
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Examples
I realized then at its urging that I must rise to fill an urgent void, that I must again estop the dike, that again I must needs for the good of this community stretch myself as a coat to cover the puddle, that Charlottesville might cross unsoiled.
I realized then at its urging that I must rise to fill an urgent void, that I must again estop the dike, that again I must needs for the good of this community stretch myself as a coat to cover the puddle, that Charlottesville might cross unsoiled.
Since the left is not as afraid of the right as it should be, it leads to a political estop beyond which the left is reluctant to go, the geopolitical analogue of the Korean 38th parallel.
At the core of this political estop of action by the left and center is the unfounded faith that Republicans will not completely renew, or do worse than, what they did the last time they had power.
Since the left is not as afraid of the right as it should be, it leads to a political estop beyond which the left is reluctant to go, the geopolitical analogue of the Korean 38th parallel.
Might there be efforts to elect Democrats in November, place an referendum on the ballot, or estop implementation of the Arizona law before travel bans and cancelled contracts?
At the core of this political estop of action by the left and center is the unfounded faith that Republicans will not completely renew, or do worse than, what they did the last time they had power.
When it comes time to argue in the Israeli forum, there is nothing in that brief that would “judicially estop” him from investing “some of his charm and charisma in wooing the Israeli public.”
But that's muddled thinking: the point of those terms legally is first to put players on notice that Blizzard makes these claims, and second to estop players from trying to dispute them.
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