moratorium

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɒ.ɹəˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/, /ˌmɔː.ɹəˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

moratorium (plural moratoriums or moratoria)

1. (law) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. [from 19th c.]
2. A suspension of an ongoing activity. [from 20th c.]

   Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.

   • 1990, Gerhard Falk, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes, McFarland.

     It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.

Further reading

• Moratorium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Moratorium in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

Noun

moratorium n (singular definite moratoriet, plural indefinite moratorier)

1. moratorium

Noun

moratorium n

1. moratorium