The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SUSPEND
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More clues leading to the result SUSPEND
- Temporarily debar second writer in south of France
- Our lot, blue at the extremities, are freezing!
- Temporarily remove pressure after American fills post
- Postpone broadcast covering product’s differentiating factor
- Delay use outside America
- Stay in small pigsty, perhaps, in south of France
- Hang up over hint of sarcasm in dispatch
- Put on hold dispatch about distinguishing brand feature
- Delay with our lot trapped in shed
- Stay with American writer in South Dakota
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The straight part
We know that "Stay" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case stay = suspend.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SUSPEND mean?
SUSPEND verb- To halt something temporarily.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To make to depend.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- (travel) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.