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Exact Match:

pause

temporary inactivity

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

Synonyms:

• abeyance,
• accent,
• accent mark,
• afterthought,
• back down,
• balance,
• bar,
• bashfulness,
• bind,
• blench,
• block,
• blockage,
• boggle,
• boggling,
• boundary,
• breach,
• break,
• breath,
• breathe,
• breather,
• breathing place,
• breathing space,
• breathing spell,
• breathing time,
• breve rest,
• bureaucratic delay,
• caesura,
• call a break,
• call a recess,
• call time,
• cancel,
• cease-fire,
• cessation,
• character,
• cigarette break,
• clause boundary,
• clause terminal,
• close juncture,
• cocktail hour,
• coffee break,
• colon,
• comma,
• compunction,
• custos,
• day off,
• debate,
• declare a recess,
• delay,
• delayage,
• delayed reaction,
• deliberate,
• demur,
• demurral,
• detention,
• diffidence,
• direct,
• discontinuance,
• discontinuation,
• discontinue,
• discontinuity,
• dot,
• double take,
• downtime,
• dragging,
• drop,
• eighth rest,
• enforced respite,
• expression mark,
• falling terminal,
• falter,
• faltering,
• fear,
• fermata,
• fight shy of,
• fissure,
• flinch,
• gap,
• half rest,
• half time,
• half-time intermission,
• halt,
• hang back,
• hang off,
• hang-up,
• happy hour,
• have qualms,
• hem and haw,
• hesitance,
• hesitancy,
• hesitate,
• hesitation,
• hiatus,
• hindrance,
• hold,
• hold off,
• hold up,
• hold-up,
• holdup,
• holiday,
• hover,
• hum and haw,
• interim,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermit,
• intermittence,
• interregnum,
• interrupt,
• interruption,
• interval,
• intervene,
• jam,
• jib,
• juncture,
• key signature,
• knock off,
• lacuna,
• lag,
• lagging,
• lapse,
• lay off,
• layoff,
• lead,
• let up,
• letup,
• ligature,
• logjam,
• lull,
• make bones about,
• mark,
• mark time,
• measure,
• metronomic mark,
• minim,
• modesty,
• moratorium,
• notation,
• objection,
• obstruction,
• off-time,
• open juncture,
• paperasserie,
• period,
• plateau,
• point,
• point of repose,
• ponder,
• presa,
• protest,
• pull back,
• quail,
• qualm,
• qualm of conscience,
• qualmishness,
• quarter rest,
• quiet spell,
• recess,
• recoil,
• red tape,
• red-tapeism,
• red-tapery,
• relief,
• remission,
• reprieve,
• respite,
• rest,
• resting point,
• retardance,
• retardation,
• retreat,
• rising terminal,
• sandhi,
• scruple,
• scrupulosity,
• scrupulousness,
• segno,
• semicolon,
• shilly-shally,
• shrink,
• shrinking,
• shy,
• shy at,
• shyness,
• sign,
• signature,
• sixteenth rest,
• slow-up,
• slowdown,
• slowness,
• slur,
• spell,
• stand-down,
• stay,
• stay of execution,
• stick at,
• stickle,
• stickling,
• stop,
• stop for breath,
• stop to consider,
• stoppage,
• straddle the fence,
• strain,
• strain at,
• surcease,
• suspend,
• suspension,
• swell,
• symbol,
• take a break,
• take a recess,
• take a rest,
• take five,
• take ten,
• take time out,
• tea break,
• tempo mark,
• terminal,
• think twice about,
• tie,
• tie-up,
• time lag,
• time off,
• time out,
• time signature,
• truce,
• vacation,
• vinculum,
• wait,
• waver,
• wince,
• withdraw,
• word boundary,
• yield