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語源

New Latin from Late Latin morātōrium, noun use of the neuter of morātōrius (“moratory, delaying”), from Latin moror (“I delay”), from mora (“delay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”). See also moratory.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌmɒ.ɹəˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/, /ˌmɔː.ɹəˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/

名詞

moratorium (複数形 moratoriums または moratoria)

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

   Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.

   • 1990, Falk, Gerhard, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes, McFarland:

     It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.

   • 2023 March 22, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, in Future of Life Institute‎^[1]:

     If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.

同意語

• (suspension of an ongoing activity): hiatus, interruption, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Further reading

• Moratorium on Wikipedia.
• Moratorium in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.