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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to delay:   (277 results)

Antonyms:
hurry, rush

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, deferment, deferral, demurrage, dilly-dally, disruption, drag one's feet, extension, gap, hesitate, interruption, lag, lingering, moratorium, pause, pocket billiards, pool, postponement, procrastinate, procrastination, retardation, shillyshally, slowdown, 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:
break, check, decelerate, hold back, hold off, inactivity, intermission, interruption, pause, retard, slow, slow down, slow up, suspension, wait

Synonyms:
detain, detention, hold, hold up, holdup, postponement, stay, time lag, wait

Also try:
— Nouns for delay: time, lines, line, times, distortion, analysis, rentals, period, absorption, entry, effects, more...

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