moratory

[ mawr-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, mor- ]
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adjective
  1. authorizing delay of payment: a moratory law.

Origin of moratory

1
1890–95; <Late Latin morātōrius dilatory, equivalent to morā() to delay; see mora + -tōrius-tory1

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