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cooling-off period definition

cooling-off· period (ko̵̅o̅l′iŋ ôf′)

a period of time during which an action, as a strike or a lockout, or a transaction, as the purchase of a gun, may not be effected or completed so as to allow reconsideration of a decision made in haste, under pressure, or due to tense or hostile circumstances

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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