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The waiting period (,Tkufat HaHamtana) was a 3-week interval in the history of Israel, May 15 – June 5, 1967, between the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula and the outbreak of the Six-Day War.
A waiting period is the period of time between when an action is requested or mandated and when it occurs.
In the United States, the term is commonly used in reference to gun control, as some U.S. states require a person to wait for a set number of days after buying or reserving a firearm from a dealer before actually taking possession of it. This waiting period allows the state to perform a background check to confirm that the purchaser is legally permitted to possess a firearm.
Waiting periods are also used for new insurance policies, particularly health insurance and flood insurance. Incidents which occur during this time are not claimable. The term may also refer to the time between the making of a claim and the payment of it, also called the elimination period.
In business finance, a waiting period (or quiet period) is the time in which a company making an initial public offering(IPO) must be silent about it, so as not to inflate the value of the stock artificially. It is also called the cooling-off period.
Other things potentially subject to waiting periods include divorce and merger proceedings.
Usage examples of "waiting period".
The ensuing two months had all the endless time-stretching tension of the waiting period while coming into range and before 'Commence firing!
But Kelgarries agreed to spin out our waiting period for another twenty-four hours, in case you did manage to survive that toss you took into the river.
In either case, it's plain that we can't make a living in an economy which isn't at least reasonably stable, and we can't afford to sweat out the waiting period before the galaxy jells again.
And if Nakitt could get the subject off the fate of certain Geldorians, it would make the next waiting period a bit more tolerable and probably less painful.
Oil went in, and after a suitable waiting period of a nanosecond inspired by the notion that it was already after five, she put the meat on the oil and cut up an onion.
So he asked me to make you a proposal: Hold off on the challenge and he'll waive the waiting period.
But at any rate, no matter what happened, a waiting period was facing me again.
But after that I am demanding that you establish another way for the Titanides to reproduce, subject to my approval, and with a ten-year waiting period, during which I will observe the new method and weed out any tricks.