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stop meaning of stop in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened an emotional ceremony, tensions still raw in the stately Capitol Rotunda, which was overrun that day when Trump supporters roamed the halls trying to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election. They stopped us at the border to check our passports.

The loyalty pie consists largely of slices such as product quality and brand; the slice for service is quite small. But service accounts for most of the disloyalty pie. We buy from a company because it delivers quality products, great value, or a compelling brand. We leave one, more often than not, because it fails to deliver on customer service.

Some companies monitor online behavior in order to identify customers who are struggling. Travelocity reduced customer effort just by improving the help section of its website. It had learned that many customers who sought solutions there were stymied and resorted to the phone. By eliminating jargon, simplifying the layout, and otherwise improving readability, the company doubled the use of its “top searches” and decreased calls by 5%. With some basic instruction, reps can eliminate many interpersonal issues and thereby reduce repeat calls. Another way to think about the sources of customer loyalty is to imagine two pies—one containing things that drive loyalty and the other containing things that drive disloyalty.

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As of jQuery 1.7, stopping a toggled animation prematurely with .stop() will trigger jQuery's internal effects tracking. In previous versions, calling the .stop() method before a toggled animation was completed would cause the animation to lose track of its state . Any subsequent animations would start at a new "half-way" state, sometimes resulting in the element disappearing.

Conversely, in a review of Spiceworld, Andy Gill of The Independent, called the album a "perky but charmless parade of pop pastiches", and described "stop" as a "pseudo-Motown stomp". "Stop" was released in the United Kingdom on 9 March 1998, in two single versions. The first one, a standard CD single, included the track and live versions of "Something Kinda Funny", "Mama", and "Love Thing", taken from the set of concerts the group did in Istanbul in October 1997. In the United States, Virgin Records serviced "Stop" to contemporary hit radio on 7 April 1998, then released the single as two CD singles on 3 June 1997.

Doing so increases the likelihood that they will return to the company, increase the amount they spend there, and speak positively about it—in other words, that they’ll become more loyal. A device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ. Cessation, check, cut-off, discontinuance, discontinuation, halt, stay, stoppage, surcease. A graduated set of organ pipes of the same kind giving tones of the same quality. An order given to a bank to withhold payment on a check. Staff are failing to charge customers for such services as stopping cheques or returning standing orders unpaid.