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abeyance definition - finance
  1. A suspension of the title to real estate while the rightful ownership is being discovered.
  2. Temporarily setting aside, such as holding a plan in abeyance.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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