Usually means: Temporary suspension of an unpleasant event.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reprieve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reprieve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reprieve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reprieve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reprieve, reprieve: Wordnik
  7. reprieve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reprieve: Wiktionary
  9. reprieve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reprieve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reprieve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reprieve: Dictionary.com
  13. reprieve (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reprieve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reprieve (album), Reprieve (death sentence), Reprieve (organisation), Reprieve, The Reprieve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reprieve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reprieve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reprieve: Rhymezone
  19. reprieve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reprieve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reprieve: Free Dictionary
  22. reprieve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reprieve: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieve: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. reprieve: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. reprieve: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reprieve: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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