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abeyance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | suspension |
| Type of | inactiveness, inactivity, inaction |
| Has types | recess, stand-down, cold storage, standdown, deferral, moratorium |
| Derivation | abeyant |
Examples of abeyance
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Capital punishment in the U.S., as a practical matter, is in a state of abeyance.
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This lasted for four months, while the Papal States of the Church was in abeyance.
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These baronies fell into abeyance when Henry's son Thomas died in about 1686.
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The suspension was held in abeyance on appeal until he returned to the big leagues.
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The leadership held the threat in abeyance while compromise negotiations took place.
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Following the extinction of the sanserevino line, the title lay in abeyance.
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And anyway, in an era when peace talks are in abeyance such compromises seem academic.
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Thus his position was in abeyance until he had been avenged and a new caliph elected.
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Third District Judge William Barrett ordered Olsen's plea held in abeyance for 18 months.
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- Temporary cessation or suspension
- Abeyance, (from the Old French abeance meaning "gaping"), is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. ...
- Expectancy; condition of being undetermined; Suspension; temporary suppression; Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended
- A condition of undetermined ownership, as of an estate that has not yet been assigned
- The term used by the FDA that includes petitions that were filed and were found after detailed review by the Office of Food Additives (OFAS) to be deficient. The OFAS does not actively work on petitions in abeyance. ...
- (n) a condition of suspended activity
- Property, title, or designated funds, held in limbo with regards to ownership, until a specified future event decides the new owner (i.e. a trust fund with an age limit, or an estate without beneficiaries).
- To withhold further activity.
- 1) n. when the owner- ship of property has not been determined. Examples include title to real property in the estate of a person who has died and there is no obvious party to receive title or there appears to be no legal owner of the property, a shipwreck while it is being determined who has ...
