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forbearance definition - legal
n. the act of delaying enforcement of a legal right, as with a creditor who grants the debtor extension of time to pay.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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