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s-uh-SPENSHUN/səˈspenʃn/

A suspension is an official pause (of a person, a sitting, a rule); also a vehicle’s shock-absorbing system: under suspension, suspension of disbelief. Suspend (this batch) is the verb; a break is everyday; dismissal is the end of the job. Do not delete a calendar slot and skip the reason.

Meaning

An official pause; also the system that absorbs shock in a vehicle.

Examples

• “Suspension of the sitting needs a recorded reason, not a deleted calendar slot.”
• “A break is everyday. A ban can be longer or vaguer. Dismissal ends employment. Car suspension is engineering. Disbelief in fiction is an idiom. Records need a why and a who. Empty calendars are not minutes.”

Good to know

An official pause (or vehicle shock-absorbers). Verb: suspend (this batch). Contrast: dismissal (the end). A deleted slot is not a reason.

Near in meaning

suspend

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