Are account suspensions permenant?

the definition of suspension is as follows:
1 : the act of suspending : the state or period of being suspended : as a : temporary removal (as from office or privileges) b : temporary withholding (as of belief or decision) c : temporary abrogation of a law or rule d (1) : the holding over of one or more musical tones of a chord into the following chord producing a momentary discord and suspending the concord which the ear expects; specifically : such a dissonance which resolves downward -- compare ANTICIPATION, RETARDATION (2) : the tone thus held over e : stoppage of payment of business obligations : FAILURE -- used especially of a business or a bank f : a rhetorical device whereby the principal idea is deferred to the end of a sentence or longer unit


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so calling it a suspension leads me to believe if you have it suspended it will be given back to you at some point in time...is it just me..or would you think the same?

From most people's experience, a suspension is a permanent lock-out from your Yahoo! Answers account. I'm not aware of any exceptions, although there may be exceptions.
Strike that -- I had this account suspended, but I appealed and the suspension was overturned. In those cases, of course, a suspension isn't permanent.

The word 'suspension', when referring to a Y! Answers account is a bit misleading.

Not always.