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sleep /vi./ 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a
process on a multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the
scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event
occurs or a specified time delay elapses. 2. In jargon, used very
similarly to /v./ block; also in `sleep on', syn. with
`block on'. Often used to indicate that the speaker has
relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly
unspecified) external event: "They can't get the fix I've been
asking for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep on it until
the release, then start hassling them again."
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