Cooling-off period may refer to:
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30-day cooling off period, a mediation or conciliation period required by law or contract before strike or lockout can go into effect
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Cooling-off period (consumer rights), a period of time during which the purchaser may cancel a purchase
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Quiet period In United States securities law, a quiet period is a period of time in which companies refrain from communicating with investors to avoid unfairly disclosing material, non-public information to certain investors when the company has not yet publicly ...
, the time which a company making an IPO must be silent about it, so as not to inflate the value of the stock artificially
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Standstill period
The ''Alcatel'' mandatory standstill period is a period of at least ten calendar days following the notification of an award decision in a contract tendered via the Official Journal of the European Union, before the contract is signed with the suc ...
, the time to allow unsuccessful bidders to challenge the decision before a contract is signed
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Waiting period
A waiting period is the period of time between when an action is requested or mandated and when it occurs.
In the United States, the term is commonly used in reference to gun control, abortion and marriage licences, as some U.S. states require ...
, in the U.S., a required time between buying a firearm and obtaining it
*in
anger management
Anger management is a psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control. It has been described as deploying anger successfully.Schwarts, Gil. July 2006. Anger Management', July 2006 The Office Politic. Men's Health magazine. Emmaus, PA: ...
, a period of time where parties in disagreement do not communicate with each other
*a period of time after the termination of a worker's employment in which they are prohibited from obtaining employment with competing entities, see
non-compete clause
*in the
nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced ...
industry, the length of time that spent nuclear fuel must be stored in water before enough heat is dissipated so that the waste product can be safely reprocessed or transported
*the defining difference between a
spree killer
A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders or homicides in a short time, in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations ...
and a serial killer
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