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RELATED WORDS : concurrent execution execution execution of instrument execution sale execution speed instruction execution instrument of execution stay stay at stay away stay fresh stay in line stay in place stay off stay on stay over stay put stay together stay up writ of execution

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Noun stay of execution has 1 sense

• stay of execution(n = noun.communication) Array - an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time; Array
is a kind of stay

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Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.

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