suspend

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suspend/səˈspend/

▶verb

• 1 halt temporarily.

• 2 debar temporarily from a post, duties, etc. as a punishment.

• 3 defer or delay (an action, event, or judgement).

  ■ Law (of a judge or court) cause (an imposed sentence) not to be enforced as long as no further offence is committed within a specified period.

• 4 hang from somewhere.

• 5 (be suspended) be dispersed in a suspension.

– phrases
suspend payment (of a company) cease to meet its financial obligations as a result of insolvency or insufficient funds.

– origin ME: from OFr. suspendre or L. suspendere, from sub- ‘from below’ + pendere ‘hang’.