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Hung, or merely excluded from work (9)

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suspended

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'hung' is the definition.
(suspending is a kind of hanging)

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(Other definitions for suspended that I've seen before include "Temporarily stopped" , "In abeyance" , "Postponed; hung" , "deferred" , "Hanged" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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