to respite

Examples

• All

• After careful consideration, the governor chose to respite the prisoner's sentence due to mitigating circumstances.

• Respite parents also might have received additional training tailored to respite providers.

  Academic text (1994)

• Present circumstances offer so many ways to harm children that respite may be more than we can muster.

  Academic text (1992)

• So my advice, for what it's worth, is to research all you want, but meet them and really try to interact with them. Any chance you could respite for them for a weekend?

  Blog text (3)

• For example, these mothers believed employment offered them respite from the demands of their caregiving responsibilities and a chance to accomplish their own goals.

  Academic text (2006)

• Such services may involve counseling for the student and/or family, behavior consultation in the home, parent support and training, and respite care.

  Academic text (2006)

• Counseling, personal care and home services, respite care, and advice and advocacy in obtaining economic and health care benefits are the most valuable services social workers can provide to meet the needs of aged black people and their caretaking kin.

  Academic text (1991)

• Another proposed OAA amendment (H.R. 597) would require a separate appropriation for the development of family caregiver services ranging from training and counseling programs to respite care.

  Academic text (1991)

• The court granted a respite from the death penalty while new evidence was reviewed.

Synonyms

R

to reprieve

vsto respite

• Formal

1 8.1

To delay a criminal's punishment, often an execution

is the legal term for the same postponement

How Delayed

to reprieve

• Formal

1 8.1

to stay

• Formal

518 5.3

to respite

• Formal

9.9

to postpone

234 3.4

to delay

562 1.4

Surface Forms

Etymology