grace period

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Noun

grace period (plural grace periods)

1. A length of time during which rules or penalties are waived or deferred.

   The fees begin to accrue after a one-month grace period.

   • 1951, State Farm Life Insurance Company, Life Agents Handbook, page 62:

     (Of course, if an insured dies during the grace period, the unpaid annual premium or instalment thereof is past due and therefore is deducted from the death benefit.)

Translations

a length of time during which rules or penalties are waived or deferred

• Arabic: فترة السماح
• Armenian: արտոնյալ ժամկետ (artonyal žamket)
• Catalan: període de gràcia m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宽限期 (zh) (kuānxiànqī)

• Finnish: vapaajakso, armonaika
• French: délai de grâce (fr) m
• German: Schonfrist (de) f
• Hungarian: türelmi idő
• Indonesian: masa leluasa, masa tenggang (id)
• Italian: periodo di grazia
• Malay: tarikh luput
• Polish: karencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: carência (pt) f
• Romanian: perioadă de grație
• Russian: грейс пери́од (grejs períod)
• Serbo-Croatian: grejs period m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: nådetid c
• Turkish: mühlet (tr), önel (tr), mehil (tr)