delay

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ considerable, enormous (esp. BrE), lengthy, long, major, serious, significant, substantial

▪ After a considerable delay, the government has agreed to accept the recommendations.

▪ five-minute, six-month, two-hour, etc.

▪ excessive (esp. BrE), inordinate (esp. BrE), undue (esp. BrE), unnecessary

▪ Undue delays have been caused by people not doing their jobs properly.

▪ inevitable, unavoidable

▪ brief, short, slight

▪ minimal, minimum

▪ unexpected, unforeseen

▪ frustrating

▪ costly

▪ bureaucratic

▪ The building project has been plagued by bureaucratic delays.

▪ further

▪ airport, flight, traffic, travel

▪ time

▪ There is a five-minute time delay on the bank's safe.

… OF DELAYS

▪ series

▪ After a series of lengthy delays, the case finally came to court.

VERB + DELAY

▪ be subject to (esp. BrE)

▪ Flights to New York may be subject to delay.

▪ be plagued by, encounter, experience, face, suffer

▪ Passengers have experienced long delays.

▪ The project has been plagued by delays.

▪ cause, lead to

▪ The strike has led to some delays in train services.

▪ avoid, eliminate, minimize, prevent, reduce

▪ Please address your letters properly so as to reduce delays.

▪ apologize for

▪ I apologize for the delay in replying to you.

DELAY + VERB

▪ occur

▪ Passengers complain about lack of information when travel delays occur.

PREPOSITION

▪ without delay

▪ Please send him the information without delay.

▪ delay in

▪ delays in getting to the airport

▪ delay of

▪ a delay of several weeks

▪ delay to

▪ further delays to the plan
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verb

ADVERB

▪ seriously, significantly, substantially

▪ Mellanby's arrival was seriously delayed by a late train.

▪ These drugs can significantly delay the onset of the disease.

▪ indefinitely

▪ further

▪ unduly (esp. BrE)

▪ temporarily

▪ slightly, somewhat

▪ deliberately

Delay is used with these nouns as the object: ↑announcement, ↑arrival, ↑completion, ↑decision, ↑delivery, ↑departure, ↑development, ↑election, ↑entry, ↑execution, ↑flight, ↑implementation, ↑introduction, ↑launch, ↑legislation, ↑onset, ↑payment, ↑publication, ↑recovery, ↑reform, ↑release, ↑retirement, ↑return, ↑vote

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delay — I noun cunctatio, cunctation, dalliance, deceleration, deferment, demurral, detainment, detention, dilatoriness, impediment, intermission, interruption, lag, lateness, cessatio, mora, moratorium, pause, postponement, procrastination, prolongation … Law dictionary
delay — Delay, Dilatio, Mora, Procrastinatio, Spatium. Delais ordinaires et ordonnez par la Loy, Legitimi dies. Un delay et terme de vingt jours donné par la Loy à ceux qui estoient convaincus par instrument, ou par leur confession, de debvoir quelque… … Thresor de la langue françoyse
Delay — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Pedal de delay. Delay (inglés: retraso) es un efecto de sonido que consiste en la multiplicación y retraso modulado de una señal sonora. Una vez procesada la señal se mezcla con la original. El resultado es el… … Wikipedia Español
DELAY (J.) — Jean DELAY 1907 1987 De sa naissance à Bayonne le 14 novembre 1907 jusqu’à la fresque sans égale achevée avec sa tétralogie généalogique Avant mémoire , en passant par l’Académie de médecine et l’Académie francaise, chaque moment de la vie de… … Encyclopédie Universelle
delay — vb 1 Delay, retard, slow, slacken, detain are not always close synonyms, but they carry the same basic meaning: to cause someone or something to be behind in his or its schedule or usual rate of movement or progress. Delay implies the operation,… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
delay — DELAY. s. m. Retardement, remise. Long delay. demander un delay. obtenir un delay. donner quelque delay. prendre du delay. sans delay. sans aucun delay. sans plus de delay. deux ou trois jours de delay. pour tout delay … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Delay — (engl. Verzögerung) steht für: mehrere Begriffe in der Telekommunikation, siehe Verzögerung (Telekommunikation) eine Verzögerung von Schall, siehe Delay (Musik) einen Effekt aus dem Bereich der audivisuell unterstützenden Veranstaltungstechnik… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Delay — De*lay , n.; pl. {Delays}. [F. d[ e]lai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See {Tolerate}, and cf. {Differ},… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Delay — De*lay , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Delaying}.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d[ e]lai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See {Delay}, n., and cf. {Delate}, 1st {Defer}, {Dilate}.] 1. To … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Delay — De*lay , v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. [1913 Webster] There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Delay — (inglés: retraso) Efecto de sonido que consiste en la multiplicación y retraso modulado de una señal sonora. Una vez procesada la señal se mezcla con la original. El resultado es el clásico efecto de eco sonoro. En cualquier módulo de delay… … Enciclopedia Universal

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