Words and phrases that have a meaning related to delay: (259 results)
Often used in the same context:
postponement, stalling, lateness, glitch, cancellation, disruption, halt, lag, snafu, glitches, inconvenience, interruption, tardiness, adjournment, deferment, hiccup, logjam, slowness, deferral, timing, malfunction, timeframe, snags, hitches, mixup, speedup, reprieve, impasse, lapse, hamper, shutdown, bottleneck, difficulties, pause, timetable, stalemate, procrastination, aggravation, setback, closedown, deadlock, timeline, confusion, resumption, shortening, scheduling, nix, deadline, uncertainty, scupper, hault, truncate, moratorium, unavailability, closure, slippage, prepone, continuance, process, standstill, hesitation, nonattendance, untimeliness, indecision, miscommunication, rainout, reconsideration, lull, slowdown, power outage, freeze, outage, advance, protraction, hindrance, misunderstanding, eleventh hour, suspension, recission, overruns, bunching, nonsuit, problems, scuttling, timelines, headaches, hesitancy, abort, chronogram, hesitance, ruckus, deliberation, timescale, nonappearance, haste, sidetrack, absence, distraction, skip, rush, gridlock, rebid, delays, duration, intermission, interval, latency, curtailment, distortion, shrinkage, wait, attenuation, respite, broadening, drop, error, expense, compositional, corresponding, multiplier, parametric, stiffness, strength, approximative, enthalpy, entropy, matching, parameter, pass, roughness, vivo, coupling, discriminative, educative, electromechanical, output, psychophysical
More specific:
break, buy time, catch, cunctation, dalliance, dawdling, demurrage, dilly-dally, drag one's feet, extension, gap, hesitate, lingering, pocket billiards, pool, procrastinate, retardation, shillyshally, stall, tarriance, tarrying, trifling, wasting time
Appears in the definition of:
., acoustic delay line, acoustic storage, advised, at full speed, at length, at once, buy time, catch, catch up, cytokinin, delay line, demurrage, directly, dispatch, dwell on, earliest, electromagnetic delay line, eventually, extension, filibuster, filibusterer, finally, forbearance, forthwith, hotfoot, immediate, immediately, impatience, impatient, instanta, instantaneous, instantaneously, instantly, in a flash, in real time, in short order, irritating, kinin, lickety cut, lickety split, like a shot, linger over, longanimity, mental quickness, now, on the spot, on time, outright, patience, pressing, primary amenorrhea, procrastinate, prompt, promptitude, promptly, promptness, provoking, putoff, quick, quick-wittedness, quickly, quickness, restive, restlessness, right away, roiled, sonic delay line, soonest, speedy, stall, stalling, stipulation, straightaway, straight off, summarily, temporize, unhurried, waiting game, well-advised, with a rush
More general:
Also try:check, decelerate, hold back, hold off, inactivity, retard, slow, slow down, slow up
— Nouns for delay: time, lines, line, times, distortion, analysis, rentals, period, absorption, entry, effects, more...
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