Pause during sentence while monocle is readjusted (9)
I believe the answer is:
semicolon
'pause' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'monocle is readjusted' is the wordplay.
'readjusted' indicates anagramming the letters.
'monocle'+'is'='monocleis'
'monocleis' anagrammed gives 'SEMICOLON'.
'during sentence while' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for semicolon that I've seen before include "Joiner" , "can cut sentence" , "Punctuation mark denoting a pause in a sentence" , "Item of punctuation" , "half a stop" .)