Spending Moratorium
Moratorium:
1. a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons.
2. a legally authorized period to delay payment of money due or the performance of some other legal obligation, as in an emergency.
3. an authorized period of delay or waiting.
[Origin: 1870–75; < NL, LL morātōrium, n. use of neut. of morātōrius moratory]
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