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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 a·bey·ance /əˈbeəns/ 名詞 不可數
 中止, 擱置, 緩辦

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 a·bey·ance /əˈbeəns/ 名詞
 機能停頓, 停止活動, 潛態

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A·bey·ance n.
 1. Law Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 Note: ☞ When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears.
 2. Suspension; temporary suppression.
    Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance.   --De Quincey.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 abeyance
      n : temporary cessation or suspension [syn: suspension]