The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word SUSPENSION
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More clues leading to the result SUSPENSION
- Removal of older person’s allowance after suspicion
- Type of bridge in South America given means of support
- Head of state visiting America given funds for stay
- Enforced break in South American hotel
- Stay in South American B&B?
- Stay in dodgy Parisian boarding house
- Endless row raised about American prison’s hanging
- Respite for regular slums by subsistence payment
- Removal of a mechanical system for absorbing shock
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The straight part
We know that "Enforced break" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case enforced break = suspension.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SUSPENSION mean?
SUSPENSION noun- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function's.
- The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.