abeyance 的定义
- 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.
abeyance 近义词
being inactive or suspended
更多abeyance例句
- Not 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.
- It’s unclear when lenders will end the abeyance awarded all of those delinquent mortgages.
- The 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?
- My own direct correspondence with Mr. Baxter is now about three months in abeyance.
- Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
- Dashwood retired with Bute and the barony of Despencer was called out of abeyance in his favour.
- Still, public feeling was so strong that by the middle of the century the laws had almost fallen into abeyance.