moratorium

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.

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

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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.

   • 2023 March 22, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, in Future of Life Institute‎:

     If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.

• (suspension of an ongoing activity): hiatus, interruption, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

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

• moratorie

moratorium n (singular definite moratoriet, plural indefinite moratorier)

1. moratorium

• (suspension of payments): henstand
• (suspension of an ongoing activity): stop

• “moratorium” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “moratorium” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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moratorium m (plural moratoriums)

1. moratorium

• “moratorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

moratorium n (definite singular moratoriet, indefinite plural moratorier, definite plural moratoria or moratoriene)

1. moratorium

moratorium n (definite singular moratoriet, indefinite plural moratorium, definite plural moratoria)

1. moratorium

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.raˈtɔ.rjum/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrjum
• Syllabification: mo‧ra‧to‧rium

moratorium n

1. moratorium

• moratorium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• moratorium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

moratorium n

1. moratorium

• moratorium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• moratorium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)