Betekenis van suspend In het Nederlands

• 0 to stop something from being active, either temporarily or permanently:

  • The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.

  • The country's president has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.

  • When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).

  • I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've finished it.

  • Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years (= if he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime).

  • She was suspended from school for fighting.

  • He was suspended for four games after arguing with the referee.

• 1 to hang:

  • The builders worked on wooden platforms, suspended by ropes from the roof of the building.

  • It was very uncomfortable lying on the hospital bed with my legs suspended in the air.

  • The drug is suspended in a saline solution.

  • A cloud of smoke was suspended in the air.

• 2 to stop doing an activity:

  • Relief agencies suspended aid yesterday.

  • Two students were suspended for damaging school property.

• 3 to hang down from something:

  • The lights were suspended from long cords.

• 4 to stop something, either temporarily or permanently, from happening or continuing:

  • The group's shares were suspended at 199p while the takeover deal was finalized.

  • suspend production/service/trading The Stock Exchange will suspend trading in the group's shares if they do not secure financing over the next two weeks.

  • suspend accounts/payments If users ignore messages warning them not to download files illegally, their accounts could be suspended.

  • indefinitely/permanently/temporarily suspended

• 5 if an organization suspends an employee or member, it temporarily stops them from working or from being a member, often because they have done something wrong:

  • suspend sb from sth/doing sth She was suspended from her £150,000-a-year job for six months.

  • Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth for failing to lift emergency rule by the deadline.

  • be suspended for 6 days/2 weeks/3 months, etc. Mr Morris, who has been suspended for a year, expects to return to his job after a meeting of governors.

  • The director was suspended on full pay pending the outcome of the investigation.

• 6 to give someone a punishment, especially a prison sentence, that will not be carried out if they do not do anything else illegal within a particular period:

  • She was given an 18-month suspended sentence for her part in the fraud.

  • He pleaded guilty and was given a 12-month sentence suspended for 12 months.