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Moratorium vs Probability - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between moratorium and probability

is that moratorium is moratorium while probability is the state of being probable; likelihood.

moratorium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (legal) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
  • A suspension of an ongoing activity.
  • Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
  • * 1990 , Gerhard Falk, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes , McFarland.
  • It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.

    probability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia probability) (probabilities)
  • the state of being probable; likelihood
  • an event that is likely to occur
  • the relative likelihood of an event happening
  • (mathematics) a number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening
  • Derived terms

    * conditional probability * frequency probability * joint probability * propensity probability

    See also

    * odds * possibility * verisimilitude