- 1reprieve somebody to officially cancel or delay a punishment, especially for a prisoner who is condemned to death a reprieved murderer
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- 2reprieve something to officially cancel or delay plans to close something or end something 70 jobs have been reprieved until next April.
reprieve
verbNAmE//rɪˈpriv//
[usually passive] (not usually used in the progressive tenses)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they reprieve he / she / it reprieves
past simple reprieved
-ing form reprieving
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