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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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