Usually means: Temporarily relieved from negative consequences.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieved: Merriam-Webster
  2. reprieved: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reprieved: Vocabulary.com
  4. reprieved: Wordnik
  5. reprieved: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. reprieved: Wiktionary
  7. reprieved: Dictionary.com
  8. reprieved: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Reprieved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Reprieved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. reprieved: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. reprieved: FreeDictionary.org
  13. reprieved: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reprieved: 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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