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n. Law An authorization to a debtor, such as a bank or nation, permitting temporary suspension of payments.

n. Law An authorized period of delay in the performance of an obligation.

n. A suspension of an ongoing or planned activity: a moratorium on the deployment of a new weapon.

n. A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

n. a suspension of an activity.

n. an officially authorized period of delay or waiting.

n. In law, legal title to delay in making a due payment: as a legislative authorization of suspension of payment by a government bank.

n. In law, legal title to delay in making a due payment: as a legislative authorization of suspension of payment by a government bank.

n. a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

n. suspension of an ongoing activity

"Just consider Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's recent tirade in which he called the moratorium an "economic calamity" that has jeopardized thousands of jobs."

time lag    hold    delay    wait    postponement    suspension    abeyance   

moratoria   

deferment   

auditorium    crematorium    emporium   

t-bills    T-bill    ban