Usually means: Temporary halt to legal penalty.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word stay of execution:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. stay of execution: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stay of execution: Merriam-Webster
  3. stay of execution: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stay of execution: Vocabulary.com
  5. stay of execution: Dictionary.com
  6. Stay of Execution (short stories), Stay of execution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. stay of execution: Rhymezone
  8. stay of execution: FreeDictionary.org
  9. stay of execution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. stay of execution: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. stay of execution: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. stay of execution: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Stay of Execution)

noun:  A stay of execution (Law Latin: cesset executio, "let execution cease") is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other court order.
noun:  a collection of mystery stories by the British thriller writer Michael Gilbert, first published in 1971 by Hodder & Stoughton.

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