Suspender

to suspendverb

Alternative meanings

to suspend
to stop temporarily
to interrupt
to postpone
to make inactive temporarily
to temporarily remove from school or work
to hang something

Pronunciation

soos-pen-DER

Root and affixes

Suspender is a loanword from Spanish suspender. For stopping or interrupting more naturally, hunong or undang are used; for postponing, pospon is used.

Variants or conjugations

suspender = to suspend / make temporarily inactive
suspensyon = suspension
gi-suspender = was suspended
hunong = stop / halt / interrupt
undang = stop / cease doing something
pospon = postpone
pagbitay = physical suspension / hanging

Related words and expressions

hunong = stop / halt
undang = stop / cease
pospon = postpone
bawal = prohibited
eskwela = school
trabaho = work
pagbitay = hanging / suspension

Meaning and usage notes

Use suspender for the direct or formal sense of to suspend. Use hunong or undang if you only mean to stop or cease doing something. Use pospon if the idea is to postpone until later.