Associations to the word «Moratorium»

Wiktionary

MORATORIUM, noun. (legal) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. [from 19th c.]
MORATORIUM, noun. A suspension of an ongoing activity. [from 20th c.]

Dictionary definition

MORATORIUM, noun. A legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged.
MORATORIUM, noun. Suspension of an ongoing activity.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin