Usually means: Temporary suspension of debt payments.
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  1. forbearance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. forbearance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forbearance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forbearance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forbearance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forbearance, forbearance: Wordnik
  7. forbearance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forbearance: Wiktionary
  9. forbearance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forbearance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forbearance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. forbearance: Dictionary.com
  13. forbearance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Forbearance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Forbearance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. forbearance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. forbearance: Rhymezone
  18. Forbearance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. forbearance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. forbearance: Free Dictionary
  21. forbearance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. for'bearance, forbearance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. forbearance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. forbearance: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Forbearance: Investopedia
  10. forbearance: Legal dictionary
  11. forbearance: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forbearance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forbearance: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
noun:  A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

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