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waiting period
noun
- a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
- Insurance. the required delay between the date of inception of a claim and the date on which the indemnity becomes payable, as in workmen's compensation insurance or unemployment insurance.
Example Sentences
State laws require consumers to go through a background check and waiting period even when buying from private sellers.
However, it then begins to count down the remaining time before the signal turns green again, removing the unknown waiting period from the driving experience.
Stop the Wait, a coalition of disability and aging groups, is calling on Congress to eliminate official waiting periods built into the Social Security Disability Insurance program.
Pluguez stayed with him through vaccine registration, the shot and the 15-minute waiting period afterward.
This waiting period can decrease trust in the technology, and it significantly slows down digital contact tracing.
The problem is that those restrictions—like jumping from a 24- to a 72-hour waiting period—seem fairly arbitrary.
In September, legislators passed HB 1307, which mandates a 72-hour waiting period for all women seeking an abortion.
After a breathless waiting period in which the infected were quarantined, none of the six fell ill.
Mississippi does require a blood test as well as a three-day waiting period between obtaining your license and saying, “I do.”
He had bought the shotgun only that weekend after deciding against an AR-15 assault rifle because of the waiting period.
This regulation was modified later owing to the waiting period being unexpectedly prolonged.
At Cradley this waiting period was abused by some of the employers to a considerable extent.
However, there didn't seem to be any waiting period at all—at least not over thirty seconds at the most.
It was during this waiting period that we quite unexpectedly ran across V—— and R——.
However, he encouraged them in every effort they made to divert themselves and to occupy their minds during the waiting period.
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