moratorium

• n. 停止、中止; [金融]後払い

ラテン語のmorari「遅らせる」が語源で、語源的にはdemurと同じ。

moratorium

moratorium: see demur

moratorium (n.)

1875, originally a legal term for "authorization to a debtor to postpone payment," from neuter of Late Latin moratorius "tending to delay," from Latin morari "to delay," from mora "pause, delay," from PIE *mere- "to hinder, delay." The word didn't come out of italics until 1914. General sense of "a postponement, deliberate temporary suspension" is first recorded 1932. Related: Moratorial.

1. The House voted to impose a one-year moratorium on nuclear testing.

衆議院の投票で核実験を1年間休止する。

2.The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling.

会議は、2年間の商業捕鯨の一時停止を呼びかけた。

3.The government has called for a moratorium on weapons testing.

政府は武器実験の一時停止を要求している。

4.We recommended a moratorium on two particular kinds of experiments.

2つの特殊な実験を一時的に禁止することを提案します。

5.A moratorium or reparations payments emerged soon after the bank began operations.

銀行の営業開始直後に、賠償金支払いの繰延返済が発生した。