abeyance
temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension:Let's hold that problem in abeyance for a while.
Law. a state or condition of real property in which title is not as yet vested in a known titleholder: an estate in abeyance.
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How to use abeyance in a sentence
However, following outrage, it decided on June 29 to keep the move in abeyance.
Should India tax games of skill and games of chance the same 28%? | Ananya Bhattacharya | July 6, 2022 | QuartzNot a single one of his fellow conservatives joined his call to hold what he called a “not only unusual, but unprecedented,” law in abeyance until lower courts and the justices could examine it more closely.
Abortion rights backers: Supreme Court’s Texas ruling shows Roe v. Wade is in danger | Robert Barnes | September 2, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s unclear when lenders will end the abeyance awarded all of those delinquent mortgages.
Housing flips the recession script: Prices will keep rising for up to a year, but here’s how the party will end | Shawn Tully | October 4, 2020 | FortuneThe court will then hold the eleven felony allocutions in abeyance.
Or were they merely orthodox through a more uneven balancing of their qualities, the animal in abeyance?
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
My own direct correspondence with Mr. Baxter is now about three months in abeyance.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonFettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonDashwood retired with Bute and the barony of Despencer was called out of abeyance in his favour.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntStill, public feeling was so strong that by the middle of the century the laws had almost fallen into abeyance.
Is Ulster Right? | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for abeyance
/ (əˈbeɪəns) /
(usually preceded by in or into) a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
(usually preceded by in) law an indeterminate state of ownership, as when the person entitled to an estate has not been ascertained
Origin of abeyance
1Derived forms of abeyance
- abeyant, adjective
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