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- noun Plural form of
shutoff .
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Examples
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Drof said the Water Board goes to great lengths to notify customers of their delinquency and work with them to prevent shutoffs, which is used as a last resort in situations where it can't be avoided.
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Know where your gas, electric and water main shutoffs are and how to turn them off if there is a leak or electrical short.
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Other countries have instituted more widespread shutoffs, including in Egypt during unrest this spring.
Phone Cutoff Stirs Worry About Limit on Speech Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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One item on sale seemed particularly appropriate in case of water shutoffs: citrus, ginger and vanilla dry shampoo.
In East Hampton, a Short List of Parties Marshall Heyman 2011
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Fenty hasn't signed bill banning heat-wave power shutoffs (WJLA-TV)
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As for transparency, Newark can start by publishing its criteria for determining which corporations, landlords or families face shutoffs, and which do not.
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The city did not announce its plans to sell tax liens against large offenders until after it had already suspended the shutoffs.
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It's hard to know whether Newark has followed this law during the two months of shutoffs.
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He was invented just a few short years ago in anticipation of foreclosures, job loss, lack of healthcare, inflation, disappearing retirement accounts, utility shutoffs, and reactions to decaying infrastructure and education.
ASCULUM, PART ONE: The Plot Thickens (or Why Am I Not Surprised?) 2009
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Bechtel's control of the water supply in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a few years later resulted in water shutoffs, contamination, and a deadly hepatitis A outbreak.
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