stranding
noun1
The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
- All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued.2023 May 3, David Bradley, “Driver Only Operation should depend on passenger density”, in RAIL, number 982, page 62:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Leaving (a word or phrase) without any expressed complement, or allowing (it) to go without one.
Of a word or phrase that can take a complement
- Related terms
- strandability, strandable, unstrandable