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vertagen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adjourn verb To pause or end a meeting, trial, or event, often to resume it later.
  • delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  • procrastinate verb To keep putting off something you should be doing, usually because it feels difficult or unpleasant, and to do something easier instead.
  • prorogue verb To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.
  • reschedule verb To arrange for something to happen at a different time than originally planned.
  • stay verb To remain in a place rather than leaving.

Senses

vertagen is used for these senses in English:

  • adjourn (transitive) To postpone.
  • adjourn (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.
  • delay To put off until a later time; to defer.
  • procrastinate (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).
  • prorogue (transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session. [from 15th c.]
  • reschedule (transitive) To schedule again or at a different time.
  • stay (transitive, obsolete) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.

adjourn — full definition

  1. verb To pause or end a meeting, trial, or event, often to resume it later.
  2. verb To move as a group to another place, especially informally.

delay — full definition

  1. noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  2. verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.

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