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Moratorium

//ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
  2. 2
    suspension of an ongoing activity wordnet
  3. 3
    A suspension of an ongoing activity.

    "Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research."

  4. 4
    a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged wordnet

Etymology

New Latin from Late Latin morātōrium, noun use of the neuter of morātōrius (“moratory, delaying”), from Latin moror (“I delay”), from mora (“delay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”). See also moratory.

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