FORBEARANCE meaning: Temporary suspension of debt payments

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word Forbearance:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

forbearance: Merriam-Webster
forbearance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
forbearance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
forbearance: Collins English Dictionary
forbearance: Vocabulary.com
Forbearance, forbearance: Wordnik
forbearance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
forbearance: Wiktionary
forbearance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
forbearance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
forbearance: Infoplease Dictionary
forbearance: Dictionary.com
forbearance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Forbearance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Forbearance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
forbearance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
forbearance: Rhymezone
Forbearance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
forbearance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
forbearance: FreeDictionary.org
forbearance: Mnemonic Dictionary
for'bearance, forbearance: TheFreeDictionary.com
forbearance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (13 matching dictionaries)

forbearance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
forbearance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
forbearance: Law.com Dictionary
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Forbearance: Investopedia
forbearance: Legal dictionary
forbearance: Financial dictionary
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forbearance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

forbearance: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forbearance)

▸ noun: Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
▸ noun: A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

Opposite:

impatience, impetuosity, rashness

Adjectives:

mutual, great, christian, such, much, patient, generous, long, divine, regulatory, little

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lavender, sage, mauve, periwinkle, soft blue, more...

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