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Verzögerung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deferment noun An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
  • deferral noun An act of deferring, a deferment.
  • delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  • hitch noun A small problem, delay, or snag.
  • latency noun The delay between an action and the response to it, especially the time data takes to travel across a network.
  • tarry verb (literary) To stay somewhere longer than planned, or to delay leaving.

Senses

Verzögerung is used for these senses in English:

  • deferment An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
  • deferral An act of deferring, a deferment.
  • delay A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
  • hitch (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
  • hold-up (colloquial) A delay or wait.
  • latency (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
  • latency (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
  • tarry A sojourn.

deferment — full definition

  1. noun An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
  2. noun Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

deferral — full definition

  1. noun An act of deferring, a deferment.
  2. noun A prepayment.

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