HARD STOP Definition & Meaning

hard stop

[ hahrd stop ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a complete, often abrupt stop:
An average garbage truck does about a thousand stops a day—and they're hard stops, triggering the ABS.
Whenever I make a hard stop on the court in these shoes, I come close to rolling an ankle.
a definite, firm, usually immediate end to something:
Oil industry leaders pressed for more action on pipelines and a hard stop to renewable energy tax credits.
a nonnegotiable time at which someone must end an activity because of another engagement:
I know some of you have a hard stop at 4:00 for another meeting, so I will keep my remarks brief.
a mechanism or machine part that causes the movement of another part, or of the whole machine, to stop completely and abruptly:
When you press the lever you should feel it bottom out against a hard stop, leaving it at a right angle to the hub axle.
Stock Exchange. a selected stock price point programmed by a trader to generate an automatic order to sell or to close a trade, as opposed to the trader making this decision on the spot:
I always use a hard stop, because otherwise a fast market can result in a much larger loss than planned.
the act, by armed law enforcement officers, of compelling the driver of a vehicle containing suspects to stop:
When his taxi was subjected to a hard stop by armed officers, he jumped out to discard a gun.
Computers. a forced shutdown, as by turning off the power:
If you hold the power button down for 10 seconds, you'll get a hard stop, but don't do it unless the computer won't turn off otherwise.

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Origin of hard stop¹

First recorded in 1885–90; 2000–05 hard stop fordef 7

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Millennials are fundamentally reimagining retirement by rejecting the traditional model of working continuously for decades before taking a hard stop.

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No hard stop pressure, no one else around.

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Harris has to “secure the blue wall, hard stop,” Belcher said, and will definitely be paying attention to — and spending time in — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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Once a jury is selected, even a ridiculous order can bring a prosecution to a hard stop because the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause precludes retrial.

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The caucuses convene without a hard stop time.

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