reprieve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
2. fiil To bring relief to someone.

   “Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.”

3. fiil To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
4. fiil To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something).

   “At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.”

5. isim The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.

   “The prisoner was saved from execution; the governor had requested a reprieve.”

6. isim A document authorizing such an action.
7. isim Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.

   “Yet it was not easy, on the balance of play, to be convinced by Pellegrini and his defeated players that the reprieve might somehow be a defining moment over the two legs.”

8. isim A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.

   “At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.”