abeyance
暂时搁置,搁置,暂缓,暂缓执行
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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Examples
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.