stay of execution

1. 1.

   an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time

   Broaderstay

   law

Questions about stay of execution

What does stay of execution mean?

stay of execution means "an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time".

Is stay of execution a common word?

stay of execution is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.