Definizione monolingua

moratorium

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.

Definizione dizionario moratorium

	moratoria
	authorization permitting temporary suspension of payments

moratoria ’’

Altri significati:

A suspension of an ongoing activity. [from 20th c.]

suspension of an ongoing activity

(law) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. [from 19th c.]