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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
"Why are people cheering for chaos? A masked man kills another masked man without any proof, without investigation, without a court, without even a waiting period for appeal what do we call this? Resistance? No, this is lawlessness," a lawyer living in Gaza said.
Some states have a one-week waiting period before they begin to pay out benefits.
Over the course of six weeks under Dudek, the phone policy zigged and zagged a half dozen times — for example, the SSA adopted, then abandoned, a three-day waiting period to conduct an algorithmic fraud check on all calls — before finally ending up nearly where it began.
Wisconsin currently bans abortion in most cases after 20 weeks with additional regulations limiting access, including a 24-hour waiting period to obtain one after first consulting a physician.
Let’s just hope no one in this couple-with-obstacles is proposing a five-year waiting period to deal with personal matters before really giving it a go.
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