Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stay_of_execution

1 sense of stay of execution

Sense 1
stay of execution -- (an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time)
       => stay -- (a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court")