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).
He was suspended for four games after arguing with the referee.
1 to hang:
3 to hang down from something:
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:
Hostilities were suspended during the talks.
When he suspended the constitution and dissolved Congress, he had the imprimatur of the armed forces.
Flights were suspended pending an investigation of the crash.
It was bedlam at the football ground after the match was suspended.
Flights to Paris were suspended.
An ordinary industrial robot hanging over the workcell suspended by an iron portal takes care of hexapod translocations.
Verbal collaboration also emerged when musical communication was suspended or broke down.
But in the case of a forced option suspending judgment is practically equivalent to not believing.
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