cooling-off period

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noun

a period arranged by agreement to allow for negotiation and an abatement of tension between disputing parties: The law calls for a cooling-off period before a strike can begin.

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Origin of cooling-off period

First recorded in 1945–50

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Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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Unlike the Soviet Union at a certain period in history, the Russian economy does not hold a candle to that of the United States.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.
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Tobacco at this period was also rolled up in the leaves of the Palm and smoked.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
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(p. 054) At this period it appears that tobacco was used as money, and as the measure of price and value.
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British Dictionary definitions for cooling-off period

cooling-off period

noun

a period during which the contending sides to a dispute reconsider their options before taking further action

a statutory period, often 14 days, that begins when a sale contract or life-assurance policy is received by a member of the public, during which the contract or policy can be cancelled without loss

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cooling-off period

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