Delaying
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Delaying is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of delay.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of delay.
More Meanings
- A delay.
Example Sentences
However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland […]
[…] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
Word Forms
- delayings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include postponement, wait, hold up, time lag, detain, stay.
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