resuspend
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resuspend (third-person singular simple present resuspends, present participle resuspending, simple past and past participle resuspended)
- (transitive) To suspend again.
- 2019 September 11, Owen Bowcott, Severin Carrell, “Scottish court ruling: what happens next in prorogation dispute?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Jolyon Maugham QC […] argued that since the government had not applied to delay the effect of the ruling, parliament is no longer suspended. If the government wants to delay prorogation further, he maintained, ministers would have to make a fresh application at a UK court immediately to resuspend parliamentary sittings.
- (ecology, chemistry, physics) To undergo (or cause to undergo) resuspension.