sufferance

/ˈsʌf(ə)r(ə)ns/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈsʌf(ə)r(ə)ns/

sufferance

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

suf - fe - rance -> sufferance

Myanmar meaning

မပြောဘဲ နားလည်သည့် သဘောတူညီမှု။ on sufferance သည်းခံသော်လည်း အားမပေးသော။

Full entry

sufferance /'sʌfǝrǝns/ n [U]

သည်းခံထားခြင်း။ ကြည့်နေခြင်း။
❏ on sufferance [IDM ] မလွှဲသာ၍။
He's only here on sufferance.

More examples

‘Visitors to some of the more offbeat historic houses can sometimes get the impression that they are there on sufferance, rather than being truly welcomed.’
‘Bulgaria claims to want foreign investment, but makes residents aliens feel as though they are here on sufferance rather than making an addition to the country's depleted population and being good consumers.’
‘Anyway - the ‘lady members’ are very much there on sufferance.’
‘The magic of this last sentence is that the very notion of immigrant, a distinction between those who belong and those who are allowed in on sufferance, makes no sense either in the abstract or in space and time.’
‘The shops stay open till all hours, the ostarias cater for families and, on sufferance, for tourists too.’
‘First, it's not really yours if it can be used only at the sufferance of the Social Security administration.’
‘It would be a tiny reminder that other people with beliefs hostile to mine own this country, and that I'm here at their sufferance.’
‘The United Kingdom was quite aware that its colony existed at the sufferance of China.’
‘She said: ‘We do not want to let the village down but when we close the shop, the post offices is here on sufferance as a service to the village.’’
‘To the extent that a ‘right’ exists only at the sufferance of the state itself, it scarcely deserves to be called a ‘right’ at all.’
‘For all its vaunted power, judicial supremacy exists at the sufferance of the people.’
‘If her marriage breaks down, she can now return to her birth home by right, and not on the sufferance of relatives.’
‘Refugees still entered Britain after that, but on sufferance, rather than as a right.’
‘The Dalit students' experience of university life is one of being admitted only on sufferance.’
‘Whether mutual repugnance might then one day be transformed into mutual sufferance, or even mutual toleration, remains to be seen.’
‘Consequently, religion remained the chief stuff of politics and the Anglican elite to an important extent ruled on sufferance.’
‘He is the agent of foreign interests that have no standing in court, and does business on sufferance, continuing only until challenged.’
‘On the show, Logan joins the major case squad on sufferance after a long, punitive stint on Staten Island, where he was exiled after taking a swing at a city councilman.’
‘He was offered a two-month anger management program that he attended under sufferance.’
‘If that is too abstract an observation then there is the simpler truth of politics: Britain is a middle class country and all parties now hold office on the sufferance of the bourgeoisie.’

Synonyms

ability, acceptance, accommodation, accord, acknowledgment, acquiescence, adaptation, adjustment, admission, admittance, advantage, agreement, agreement; concession, allowance, altruism, approbation, approval, assent, authority, authorization, avowal, backbone, backing, bearing, benevolence, blank check, blessing, broad-mindedness, calmness, canonization, capacity, caritas, carte blanche, charitableness, charity, charter, civility, clemency, compassion, compliance, composure, concession, concurrence, condescension, condonance, condonation, confirmation, conformity, consent, constancy, continuing, cool, coolness, countenance, courage, cronyism, cut, deduction, deference, deigning, diligence, discount; concession, disdain, dispensation, docility, empowering, empowerment, encouragement, endorsement, endurance, enduring, equanimity, equitableness, even temper, fairness, favor, fiat, forbearance, forbearing, forebearance, forgiveness, fortitude, franchise, freedom, gentleness, go-ahead, good will, grace, grant, green light, grit, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, hardness, heart, holding up, humanity, humbleness, humility, imperturbability, imprimatur, indulgence, insolence, intestinal fortitude, justness, kindness, leave, legalization, legs, lenience, leniency, lenity, letting, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, liberty, license, lifesaver, long-suffering, longanimity, lowliness, magnanimity, meekness, mercifulness, mercy, mettle, mildness, moderation, modesty, moxie, nod, nonresistance, okay, opposition, pass, passiveness, passivity, passport, patent, patience, patientness, patronization, patronizing, permission, permissiveness, permit, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, poise, privilege, promise, ratification, rebate, recognition, recommendation, reduction

Antonyms

agitation, agreement, antagonism, apathy, arousal, arrogance, award, ban, bias, bigotry, break, competition, compliance, cowardice, cruelty, denial, detraction, difference, disagreement, disapproval, discouragement, disobedience, dissension, dissent, end, fear, fight, fleetingness, frustration, grounding, harshness, honor, humility, idleness, impatience, impotence, imprisonment, inability, incarceration, incompetence, increase, indifference, indolence, indulgence, intolerance, lack, laziness, lethargy, limitation, malevolence, meanness, mercilessness, modesty, narrow-mindedness, no mercy, nonconformity, objection, opposition, prejudice, prevention, pride, prohibition, proneness, protest, question, refusal, rejection, repudiation, resistance, respect, restraint, restriction, reward, selfishness, taking on, timidity, unkindness, veto, weakness, wildness