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Noun
/əˈbāəns/,
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A state of temporary disuse or suspension,
  1. A state of temporary disuse or suspension
    • - matters were held in abeyance pending further inquiries
  2. The position of being without, or waiting for, an owner or claimant

  1. temporary cessation or suspension
  2. Abeyance, (from the Old French abeance meaning "gaping"), is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. ...
  3. Expectancy; condition of being undetermined; Suspension; temporary suppression; Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended
  4. a condition of undetermined ownership, as of an estate that has not yet been assigned
  5. means a temporary suspension. Let’s see a sentence using the word ‘abeyance’: He kept his temper in abeyance for several moments, when he found out what she had done. (He had to hold his anger when he found out the mischief done by her).
  6. Lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom title is vested.  In the law of estates, the condition of a freehold when there is no person in being in whom it is vested. ...
  7. The term used by the FDA that includes petitions that were filed and were found after detailed review by the Office of Food Additives (OFAS) to be deficient. The OFAS does not actively work on petitions in abeyance. ...
  8. (n) a condition of suspended activity
  9. Property, title, or designated funds, held in limbo with regards to ownership, until a specified future event decides the new owner (i.e. a trust fund with an age limit, or an estate without beneficiaries).
  10. To withhold further activity.
  11. 1) n. when the owner- ship of property has not been determined. Examples include title to real property in the estate of a person who has died and there is no obvious party to receive title or there appears to be no legal owner of the property, a shipwreck while it is being determined who has ...