Usually means: Postponing action until a later time.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. delaying: Merriam-Webster
  2. delaying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. delaying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Delaying, delaying: Wordnik
  5. delaying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. delaying: Wiktionary
  7. Delaying, delaying: Dictionary.com
  8. delaying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Delaying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Delaying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. delaying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. delaying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. delaying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. delaying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delaying: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (delaying)

▸ noun:  A delay.

Similar:
postponement, detain, wait, holdup, hold up, stay, detention, hold, time lag, delaying tactic, more...

Opposite:
expediting, hastening, accelerating, quickening, advancing

Phrases:
delaying tactics, delaying action, delaying tactic, delaying actions, parturition delaying, more...

Adjectives:
long, more, time, further, death, deliberate, non, mere, puberty, steep, action

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Similar:
postponement, detain, wait, holdup, hold up, stay, detention, hold, time lag, delaying tactic, more...

Opposite:
expediting, hastening, accelerating, quickening, advancing

Phrases:
delaying tactics, delaying action, delaying tactic, delaying actions, parturition delaying, preventing or delaying a process, use delaying tactics, more...

Adjectives:
long, more, time, further, death, deliberate, non, mere, puberty, steep, action

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive, more...



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