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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moratorium \Mor`a*to"ri*um\, n. [NL. See Moratory.]
(Law) A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
a suspension of an activity.
an officially authorized period of delay or waiting; as, a moratorium on putting a law into effect.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1875, originally a legal term for "authorization to a debtor to postpone payment," from neuter of Late Latin moratorius "tending to delay," from Latin morari "to delay," from mora "pause, delay," from PIE *mere- "to hinder, delay." The word didn't come out of italics until 1914. General sense of "a postponement, deliberate temporary suspension" is first recorded 1932. Related: Moratorial.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. (from 19th c.) 2 A suspension of an ongoing activity. (from 20th c.)
WordNet
n. a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged
suspension of an ongoing activity
[also: moratoria (pl)]
Wikipedia
Moratorium (from Late Latin morātōrium, neuter of morātōrius, delaying), may refer to:
- Moratorium (law)
- Moratorium (entertainment)
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
- UN moratorium on the death penalty
- 2010 U.S. Deepwater Drilling Moratorium
- “Moratorium,” a song by Alanis Morissette on her album Flavors of Entanglement
- July Moratorium, a period with limited activity in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before their salary cap is announced
A moratorium is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law. In a legal context, it may refer to the temporary suspension of a law to allow a legal challenge to be carried out.
For example, animal rights activists and conservation authorities may request fishing or hunting moratoriums to protect endangered or threatened animal species. These delays, or suspensions, prevent people from hunting or fishing the animals in discussion.
Another instance is a delay of legal obligations or payment. A legal official can order due to extenuating circumstances, which render one party incapable of paying another.
A moratorium in the home entertainment business refers to the practice of suspending the sales of films on home video DVD, VHS, and Blu-ray and boxed sets after a certain period of time. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment practices moratorium more than any other production company, often with releases of classic animated films in the Disney catalogue.
Disney is the first studio that puts its films on moratorium. In 2002, Universal Pictures used this practice with the release of the Back to the Future DVD boxed set. George Lucas also used this practice with the Star Wars trilogy DVD boxed set. However, the moratorium was lifted on Back to the Future in 2009 before the release of the 25th anniversary Blu-ray set and on Star Wars, once Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith was released to theatres on May 19, 2005. Disney itself states that the practice of moratorium is done to both control their market and to allow Disney films to be fresh for new generations of young children.
The practice of moratorium has been frowned upon by consumers because it forces higher sale prices. A normal DVD that is sold under moratorium can sell at retail for a very high price relative to the general run of DVDs. However, prices are known to drop near the end of the issue. In the past, a moratorium created urgency for people interested in a film to obtain it before it became unavailable. A side effect of the moratorium process is the fact that videos and DVDs of films, once they are placed on moratorium, become collector's items. Additional unintended side-effects to the practice of moratorium has made films a prime target for on-line video-sharing site distribution and the proliferation of counterfeit DVD manufacturing.
Usage examples of "moratorium".
He would try to negotiate with the Allies a cancellation of reparations, whose payment had been temporarily stopped by the Hoover moratorium.
Apparently this man thinks that if Hidey had waited and just let the moratorium expire, people in biological research could have taken the time to educate the public, get them used to the idea of possible experiments.
I heard that the Preservationists split down the line on the vote, but he was definitely on the side of the moratorium.
It had been two months since the Commissioner had declared a moratorium on scavenging and had pulled all ships out of space, but this feeling of a stretched-out vista had not stopped thrilling Long.
Even the thought that the moratorium was called pending a decision on the part of Earth to enforce its new insistence on water economy, by deciding upon a ration limit for scavenging, did not cast him entirely down.
The Tech Center rose in a jumble off to the left, beer cans and trapezoids, and then there was a long curve of isolated buildings all the way to downtown, an island of skyscraping towers obviously in need of a moratorium.
United Nations Security Council will issue a statement, deploring the testing of pure-fusion weapons as being contrary to the de facto moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons and to global nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear-disarmament efforts.
In spite of calls from Republican governors like George Ryan of Illinois to support a moratorium on capital punishment, he rejected all efforts to slow down the number of executions even after it was revealed that there are dozens of people on death row who are innocent.
Republican governors like George Ryan of Illinois to support a moratorium on capital punishment, he rejected all efforts to slow down the number of executions even after it was revealed that there are dozens of people on death row who are innocent.
Fact: A moratorium on sewer hookups will be costly to powerful builders.
I knew, however, that after all the protests and the Moratorium, American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.
A three-month moratorium on inter-kajidic violence will free our minds so that we may look at the problem of Arnk without distractions.
However, given the moratorium on paper products at Mount Dragon, the library contained mostly electronic resources, and in any case few members of the overworked Mount Dragon staff had time to enjoy its solitude.
No mandamus could locate the depleted whilom Breyfawkes as he had entered into an ancient moratorium, dating back to the times of the early barters, and only the junior partner Barren could be found, who entered an appearance and turned up, upon a notice of motion and after service of the motion by interlocutory injunction, among the male jurors to be an absolete turfwoman, originally from the proletarian class, with still a good title to her sexname of Ann Doyle, 2 Coppinger's Cottages, the Doyle's country.
As they reported on bank moratoriums, on disturbance to the judicial process by the call-up of magistrates, on Russian aims in Con.