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noun a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged
noun suspension of an ongoing activity
originNew Latin from Late Latin morātōrium, noun use of the neuter of morātōrius (“moratory, delaying”), from Latin moror (“to delay”), from mora (“delay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”). See also moratory.
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