reprieve

/ɹɪˈpɹiːv/

verb

(transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution. / (transitive) To bring relief to someone. / (transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).

The judge decided to reprieve the defendant and give him a second chance.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.

意味（2）

(transitive) To bring relief to someone.

Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.

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意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).

意味（4）

To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something).

At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.

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