Usually means: Temporary suspension of a punishment.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieves: Merriam-Webster
  2. reprieves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reprieves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Reprieve's, Reprieves, reprieves: Wordnik
  5. reprieves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  6. reprieves: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. reprieves: Wiktionary
  8. reprieves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reprieves: Dictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieves: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. reprieves: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reprieves: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reprieve)

verb:  (transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
verb:  (transitive) To bring relief to someone.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
verb:  (transitive) To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something).
noun:  The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
noun:  A document authorizing such an action.
noun:  Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
noun:  A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
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