• Delaying

    Verb

    1. Present participle of delay

    Full definition of delaying

    Noun

    delaying

    (plural delayings)
    1. A delay.
      • 1909, Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire GardenHowever, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland ...
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