Sanction vs Moratorium - What's the difference?
sanction | moratorium |
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
(legal) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
A suspension of an ongoing activity.
* 1990 , Gerhard Falk, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes , McFarland.
As nouns the difference between sanction and moratorium
is that sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid while moratorium is moratorium.As a verb sanction
is to ratify; to make valid.sanction
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
moratorium
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Noun
(en-noun)- Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
- 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.
