1) Abatement 2) Acquittal 3) Break 4) Breather 5) Ceasefire 6) Defervescence 7) Deliverance 8) Hiatus 9) Lull 10) Pause 11) Recreation 12) Remission 13) Reprieve 14) Rest 15) Subsidence 16) Truce
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1) Bit of relief 2) Break 3) Break engineers with malice 4) Break from the action 5) Breather 6) Breathing space 7) Breathing spell 8) Brief relief 9) Ease 10) French word used in English 11) Interval of relief 12) Interval of rest 13) Lull 14) Relief 15) Reprieve 16) Short break 17) The act of reprieving
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- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a pause for relaxation
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
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[law] A respite is a delay in the imposition of sentence but in no way modifies a sentence or addresses questions of due process, guilt or innocence. ==United States== The pardon power of the United States Constitution has been broadly interpreted to include a variety of specific powers. Among those powers are: pardons, conditional pardons,...
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• (n.) To give or grant a respite to. • (n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. • (n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. • (n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term. • (n.) To relieve by a pau...
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A brief period of rest or a short break that allows a carer to have a break from caring.
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Res'pite transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Respited ;
present participle & verbal noun Respiting .] [ Old French
respiter , Late Latin
respectare . See
Respite ,
noun ] To give or...
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Res'pite noun [ Old French respit , French répit , from Latin respectus respect, regard, delay, in Late Latin , the deferring of a day. See Respect .] 1. A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. « I crave but four day's respite
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An act by which a debtor who is unable to satisfy his debts at the moment, transacts (i. e. compromises) with his creditors, and obtains from them time or delay for the payment of the sums which he owes to them.The respite is either voluntary or forced; it is voluntary when all the creditors consent to the proposal, which the debtor makes to pay in...
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Respite care is temporary relief. It can be provided for an older person or for an older person`s carer
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[
n] - a pause for relaxation 2. [n] - a pause from doing something (as work) 3. [v] - grant a respite to
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recess noun a pause from doing something (as work); `we took a 10-minute break`; `he took time out to recuperate`
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A short break or time away.
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[Political terms] a pause from doing something
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