Usually means: Postpone or delay an action.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word put off:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. put off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. put off: Merriam-Webster
  3. put-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. put off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. put off: Vocabulary.com
  6. put-off: Wordnik
  7. put off: Wiktionary
  8. Put-off, put off: Dictionary.com
  9. Put-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. put-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. put off: Rhymezone
  12. Put-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. put-off: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. PUT OFF: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. put off: Phrasal Verb Page
  16. put-off, put off: FreeDictionary.org
  17. put off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Put-off, put off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. put off: Legal dictionary
  2. put off: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put off: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Put off: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (put off)

verb:  (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination.
verb:  (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
verb:  (transitive) To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To take off (something worn).
adjective:  offended, repulsed
adjective:  daunted or fazed

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