Antonyms for interruption
ˌɪn təˈrʌp ʃənin·ter·rup·tion

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1. • Happening
   • Time Interval

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1. break, interruption, disruption, gapnoun

   an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

   "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, gap, commotion, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, crack, rift, intermission, break of serve, severance, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, flutter, hoo-hah, geological fault, hurly burly, spread, col, to-do, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, open frame, gaolbreak, dislocation, breach, breakage, perturbation, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, kerfuffle, opening, rupture, hoo-ha, prison-breaking

2. interruption, breaknoun

   some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity

   "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

   Synonyms:
   recess, good luck, rift, fault, prison-breaking, breakout, fracture, suspension, break of serve, happy chance, respite, geological fault, faulting, shift, time out, severance, pause, open frame, breach, breakage, disruption, jailbreak, gap, falling out, prisonbreak, breaking, intermission, rupture, gaolbreak, break

3. pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspensionnoun

   a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

   Synonyms:
   prison-breaking, gap, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, rift, intermission, severance, gaolbreak, falling out, hanging, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, geological fault, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, reprieve, open frame, abatement, break of serve, hiatus, breach, breakage, abeyance, suspension system, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, temporary removal, rupture, dangling

How to use interruption in a sentence?

1. Boris Johnson:

   What they don't want is friction at the border, they don't want any interruption of the economy. So they're sacrificing all the medium - and long-term gains out of fear of short term disruption, they're terrified of this nonsense. It's all total mumbo jumbo.

2. President Dilma Rousseff:

   They will not achieve anything by attacking my record, which is known; I love my country and I'm honest, i will fight against the illegitimate interruption of my mandate using all the tools that the rule of law gives me.

3. Geoffrey Berman:

   I learned in a press release from the Attorney General tonight that I was' stepping down' as United States Attorney. I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position, to which I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, i will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.

4. Michael Barry:

   There are a number of businesses nationwide who are suing their insurers, believing the a business interruption policy pays out when there is no direct physical damage, in order to have the resources to pay their legitimate claims, insurers must deny ones in which they are not an obligation to pay.

5. Ezra Pound:

   There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

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