Moratorium

Noun

 * 1)  An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
 * 2) A suspension of an ongoing activity.
 * Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
 * 1) * 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.

Thesaurus
afterthought, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, cancellation, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detention, double take, dragging, freeze, grace period, halt, hang-up, hiatus, hindrance, holdup, interim, jam, lag, lagging, logjam, obliteration, obstruction, paperasserie, pause, postponement, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, tie-up, time lag, wait, write-off

Etymology
New Latin from moratorium:, noun use of the neuter of moratorius:, from  morior: from mora:. See also moratory:.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Finnish: lyhennysvapaus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: greiðslustöðvun; frestur;


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: moratória
 * Russian: мораторий, отсрочка по платежам и финансовым обязательствам
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: мораторий
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) moratorium

Synonyms

 * henstand
 * stop

Noun

 * 1) moratorium