STALLED

Definition: STALLED

STALLED

Adjective

1. Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Stall

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STALLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Crosswords: STALLED

For he that gets hurt will be he that has stalled ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

When the engine's stalled and it won't stop raining (Roll To Me; performing artist: Del Amitri)

That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track ("Teen Angel"; performing artist: Mark Dinning)

A car was stalled, the engine was dead (Last Kiss; performing artist: Pearl Jam)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Affirmative Action and the Stalled Quest for Black Progress (reference)

• Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (reference)

• Confronting Nonpromotability: How to Manage a Stalled Career (reference)

• CRM Megatrends 2002: Evolving from Stalled Implementations and Failure [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Egypt: The Stalled Society (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stalled (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stalled Parade (reference)

• Stalled Parade [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

What every motorist knows. When you're stalled on the road, the gent with the classy clothes ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Migrant family's car stalled in main street of small town near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Car stalled after snowstorm, Woodstock, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California. Heading for the pea harvest but stalled because they have no money to buy a trailer's license. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migrant drought refugee family stalled on an Arizona highway, between Yuma and Phoenix, on their way to California to work in the harvests. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

All development plans will be pursued in collaboration with the Malaysian Rocpoint Group, which owns key parts of the Point land but has for years stalled development there. (references)

The lack of purchasing power, control of user fees by city authorities and the lack of relevant legislation, presently stalled in parliament, limit the development of cable TV in Ukraine. (references)

Microsoft Windows remains in the market despite the rise of Linux-based software that appeared to have overtaken the Chinese-version of Windows 98. Windows 2000 stalled this trend with major buyers in government and business relying on the new platform, but the competition continues. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

The Congress Party, which governs the state of Assam, is opposed to the repeal of the act, and stalled its repeal in Parliament. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Banking sector reform has stalled. (references)

Uruguay

But some long-planned measures appear to be stalled. (references)

Human Rights

Philippines

Direct talks were stalled, but both sides reportedly were working to resume negotiations. (references)

Ecuador

Police in nearby Guaranda pressed charges against junta suspects, but the case appeared to be stalled at year's end. (references)

Dominican Republic

Joint reform efforts between the judiciary and the Santo Domingo district attorney's office stalled during the year. (references)

Political Economy

Kenya

As a result, the constitutional review process is now stalled. (references)

Mexico

However, wage growth stalled in the second half, reflecting a contraction in exports and the worldwide economic slowdown. (references)

HONG KONG

A strong, export-led recovery in 2000 and early 2001 stalled abruptly at mid-year, following a slump in consumer demand in the United States and Europe. (references)

Political Rights

Kenya

In 1999 the constitutional reform process stalled, when political parties were unable to agree how seats on the commission should be divided among the parties. (references)

Kenya

The Parliament created a separate review commission in November 2000. During the year the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC) expanded and in March, following many months of political wrangling and stalled efforts, members of the Ufungamano Initiative agreed to take seats on the CKRC. In May the Ufungamano process merged with the parliamentary process; in June the newly-created Constitutional Review Commission began work. (references)

Trade

Guinea

But those reforms have stalled, leaving the banking sector in much the same state. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

It was nearly absent in the informal sector, and the government's efforts to enforce the law stalled. (references)

Colombia

The longest strike of the year took place from December 18, 2000, to February 28, at the factories of beverage manufacturer Bavaria, where over 6,300 employees walked out to protest stalled contract negotiations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "STALLED": be stalled. Additional references.

Beginning with "STALLED": stalled-career.

Ending with "STALLED": re-stalled, semi-stalled.

Chinese 

失去作�"�. (various references)

Danish

kvaeg paa stald (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

Dutch

stalvee (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

Finnish

sisällä hoidettava karja (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

French

bétail en stabulation (stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

German

würgte ab, abgewürgt. (various references)

Greek 

ενσταυλισμένο κοπάδι (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

Hebrew 

אבוס (crib, fattened, feeding trough, manger, stall, stuffed). (various references)

Hungarian

sebességvesztésben levő, sárban megfeneklett, sárban elakadt, sárba rekedt, sárba ragadt, rekeszekre osztott, rekeszekkel felszerelt, leállt, leállított, jószágállásokkal felszerelt, istállóban tartott, istállóban hizlalt, istállóban elhelyezett, bokszokkal felszerelt, állásokra osztott. (various references)

Italian

bestiame stabulato (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle), bestiame in stalla (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�座 (running aground, stranded). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かくざ (running aground, stranded). (various references)

Korean 

실속하�". (various references)

Manx

sthollit (stationed), scuirrit (hove to, resting, stopped). (various references)

Pig Latin

alledstay.(various references)

Spanish

ganado de estabulacion (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

Swedish

djur på stall (housed livestock, stabled cattle, stalled cattle). (various references)

Ukrainian

стійловий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "STALLED": forestalled, installed, pedestalled, reinstalled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"STALLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salled, sallet, satlled, schalle, stael, stalid, stalla, stalle, stallen, stiled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dalles, deltas, desalt, ladles, lasted, sallet, salted, slated, staled, stella.

-2 letters: dales, dates, deals, dealt, dells, delta, delts, lades, ladle, lased, lated, leads, least, sated, setal, slate, stade, stale, stall, stead, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tells, tesla, tsade.

-3 letters: ales, alls, alts, ates, dale, dals, date, deal, dell, dels, delt, east, eats.

+2 letters: ballasted, gladliest, headstall, installed, landsleit, medallist, tailslide, tasselled, teaselled.

+3 letters: decollates, desolately, distillate, headstalls, landaulets, leadplants, legislated, medallists, metalloids, oscillated, palletised, tablelands, tailslides, treadmills.

+4 letters: allantoides, blacklisted, castellated, dauntlessly, deathlessly, deistically, delectables, detasselled, disenthrall, distillates, drillmaster, endosteally, flatlanders, forestalled, illustrated, mortadellas, pedestalled, reinstalled, saddlecloth, scutellated, stallholder, steamrolled, stonewalled, subtotalled, tessellated, unballasted, volatilised.

+5 letters: adolescently, adulterously, battlefields, candlelights, constellated, crystallised, crystallized, decollations, decolletages, desolatingly, despotically, detasselling, disenthralls, disloyalties, domestically, dorsolateral, drillmasters, endoskeletal, glycosylated, labiodentals, misallocated, pedestalling, petrodollars, sacerdotally, saddlecloths, scintillated, stallholders, stranglehold, syllabicated, syndetically.