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Collocations for suspend - verb

1. delay sth

ADVERB

immediately
indefinitely
temporarily
Funding for the new building has been temporarily suspended.
effectively

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VERB + suspend

agree to, decide to, vote to
They have decided to suspend production at the country's biggest plant.
threaten to
be forced to

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PHRASES

the power to suspend sth
They have the power to suspend subsidy payments.

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2. stop sb from working, going to school, etc.

ADVERB

automatically, formally (esp. BrE)
The players will be automatically suspended.
indefinitely, permanently
temporarily

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VERB + suspend

threaten to

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PREPOSITION

for
We both got suspended for fighting.
from
The girls had been suspended from school for five days.
pending
She was suspended pending the outcome of the police investigation.

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PHRASES

be suspended on full pay (BrE)
She has been suspended on full pay following a disciplinary hearing.
be suspended with pay, be suspended without pay

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Suspend is used with these nouns as the object:
activity, aid, congress, constitution, disbelief, execution, flight, industrial action, judgement, licence, parliament, payment, relation, sentence, service, shipment, talk, writ

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