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Exact Match:

suspension

a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)

the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"

a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle

an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

Synonyms:

• abandonment,
• abeyance,
• abjuration,
• abjurement,
• abolishment,
• abolition,
• abrogation,
• adaptation,
• afterthought,
• annulment,
• arrangement,
• bind,
• block,
• blockage,
• breach,
• break,
• breath,
• breather,
• breathing place,
• breathing space,
• breathing spell,
• breathing time,
• bureaucratic delay,
• caesura,
• cancel,
• canceling,
• cancellation,
• cashiering,
• cassation,
• catharsis,
• cease-fire,
• cessation,
• cigarette break,
• cleansing,
• clearance,
• cocktail hour,
• coffee break,
• cold storage,
• concluding,
• conclusion,
• conge,
• countermand,
• counterorder,
• danglement,
• dangling,
• day off,
• debarring,
• deconsecration,
• defeasance,
• deferment,
• defrocking,
• delay,
• delayage,
• delayed reaction,
• delaying,
• deliverance,
• denial,
• dependence,
• dependency,
• deportation,
• deposal,
• deposition,
• deprivation,
• desistance,
• detachment,
• detention,
• dethronement,
• disbarment,
• disbarring,
• discard,
• discharge,
• discontinuance,
• discontinuation,
• discrownment,
• disemployment,
• disenthronement,
• disjunction,
• dismissal,
• displacement,
• displacing,
• disposal,
• disposition,
• doldrums,
• dormancy,
• double take,
• downtime,
• dragging,
• drop,
• drumming out,
• ejection,
• elimination,
• emotional release,
• end,
• ending,
• enforced respite,
• eradication,
• eviction,
• exclusion,
• excommunication,
• exile,
• expatriation,
• expulsion,
• finish,
• firing,
• fissure,
• forbearance,
• forced resignation,
• forced separation,
• freeing,
• furloughing,
• gap,
• halt,
• hang-up,
• hanging,
• happy hour,
• harmonization,
• hesitation,
• hiatus,
• hibernation,
• hindrance,
• hold-up,
• holdup,
• holiday,
• immobility,
• impeachment,
• inaction,
• inactiveness,
• inactivity,
• inertia,
• instrumentation,
• interim,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermittence,
• interruption,
• interval,
• intonation,
• invalidation,
• jam,
• kicking upstairs,
• lacuna,
• lag,
• lagging,
• lapse,
• latency,
• layoff,
• letup,
• liquidation,
• logjam,
• lull,
• modulation,
• moratorium,
• motionlessness,
• nonexercise,
• nullification,
• obstruction,
• orchestration,
• ostracism,
• ousting,
• outlawing,
• outlawry,
• overthrow,
• overthrowal,
• paperasserie,
• pause,
• pendency,
• pendulosity,
• pendulousness,
• pensileness,
• pensility,
• pensioning off,
• period,
• phrasing,
• pink slip,
• postponement,
• preparation,
• purgation,
• purge,
• purging,
• quiescence,
• quiescency,
• recall,
• recantation,
• recess,
• red tape,
• red-tapeism,
• red-tapery,
• rejection,
• release,
• relinquishment,
• remission,
• removal,
• renege,
• renouncement,
• renunciation,
• repeal,
• reprieve,
• rescinding,
• rescindment,
• rescission,
• resignation,
• resolution,
• respite,
• rest,
• retardance,
• retardation,
• retirement,
• retraction,
• reversal,
• revocation,
• revoke,
• revokement,
• riddance,
• setting,
• setting aside,
• severance,
• slow-up,
• slowdown,
• slowness,
• solution,
• spell,
• stand-down,
• stay,
• stay of execution,
• stop,
• stoppage,
• superannuation,
• surcease,
• surplusing,
• suspense,
• tea break,
• termination,
• the ax,
• the boot,
• the bounce,
• the gate,
• the sack,
• ticket,
• tie-up,
• time lag,
• time out,
• tone painting,
• transcription,
• truce,
• unchurching,
• underactivity,
• unfrocking,
• unseating,
• vacation,
• vacatur,
• voidance,
• voiding,
• wait,
• waiver,
• waiving,
• walking papers,
• withdrawal,
• write-off