delay

Definition

Examples

Due to severe winter storms, several morning flights have experienced unexpected delays.

Synonyms

• deferhold back to a later time
• set backhaving a meaning similar to delay

Collocations

• Easy flight delay announced
  to flight delay announced, meaning to shoot a bird in flight
• Medium delay the meeting until next week
  to delay the meeting until next week, meaning to cause to be slowed down or delayed
• Hard unavoidable production delay costs
  describing unavoidable production delay costs (impossible to avoid or evade:)
• Very Hard act without further delay to save lives
  to act without further delay to save lives, meaning to perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)