moratorium
See also: Moratorium and moratórium
English
WOTD – 12 April 2010
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
Noun
moratorium (plural moratoriums or moratoria)
- (law) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. [from 19th c.]
- 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.
Translations
authorization permitting temporary suspension of payments
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suspension of an ongoing activity
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Further reading
Moratorium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Moratorium in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
Danish
Inflection
Declension of moratorium
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | moratorium | moratoriet | moratorier | moratorierne |
genitive | moratoriums | moratoriets | moratoriers | moratoriernes |
Polish
Declension
declension of moratorium
singular | plural | |
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nominative | moratorium | moratoria |
genitive | moratorium | moratoriów |
dative | moratorium | moratoriom |
accusative | moratorium | moratoria |
instrumental | moratorium | moratoriami |
locative | moratorium | moratoriach |
vocative | moratorium | moratoria |
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