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moratorium|mɒrəˈtɔərɪəm|
Pl. -ia, -iums.
[mod.L., neut. of late L. morātōrius: see next.]
1. Law. A legal authorization to a debtor to postpone payment for a certain time.
1875Times 28 Sept. 5/3 The merchants of Belgrade, taking advantage of the warlike rumours, have asked for a moratorium. 1884Pall Mall G. 27 Aug. 5/2 The Vienna sugar firm..in demanding a moratorium..assumes that its assets will, in a year's time, be sufficiently valuable to pay the debts which it is now unable to liquidate. 1905(Official Receiver in) Author XV. 233/2 The refusal of his largest unsecured creditors to consent to a moratorium of sufficient length to enable him to recover his position. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 7 Sept. 8/2 There is little evidence that past Farm Board ‘moratoriums’ on sales of its commodity holdings, or its quota schemes to sift holdings into the markets in small lots, have buoyed the market for these commodities. 1972Times 27 Jan. 14/4 Those who wanted to agree to moratoria to assist businesses in financial difficulties. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1434/1 Will there be resolutions to the federal or sitdown moratoria in Collins street?
2. A postponement, an agreed delay, a deliberate temporary suspension (of some activity, etc.).
1932Sun (Baltimore) 5 Sept. 1/2 The moratorium on picketing ordered by Milo Reno, of Des Moines, national leader of the strike, seemed virtually achieved when only on two highways near Sioux City were farmers turning back live stock and produce trucks. 1934W. B. Wolfe Nervous Breakdown i. 2 In a nervous breakdown the whole personality declares a moratorium of normal activities, and both body and soul join in a cry for help. 1944Word Study May 7/2 A moratorium on ‘of course’ sentences. 1956Jrnl. Amer. Psychoanal. Assoc. Jan. 66 Societies offer..more or less sanctioned intermediary periods between childhood and adulthood, institutionalized psycho⁓social moratoria. 1957Observer 25 Aug. 8/2 Their new proposal that nuclear tests should be suspended not for ten months but for two years... Under their plan, the launching of the first year's moratorium would depend on an East–West agreement to a partial disarmament plan covering several fields. 1961I. Murdoch Severed Head xiii. 113 For me they [sc. words] constituted rather a kind of moratorium, a momentary neutral zone where I could..absolutely rest. 1969Guardian 13 Oct. 3/2 Moratorium-day on Vietnam..has so captured the attention that Wednesday is expected to see the most wide-spread political protest in America's history. 1970Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 13/4 Could we not now have a moratorium on Dylan Thomas records? 1972Nature 17 Mar. 94/1 A provision calling for a five-year moratorium on the killing of all ocean mammals. |