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Delay

A putting off or deferring procrastination lingering inactivity stop detention hindrance

Forisfamiliate

Literally to put out of a family hence to portion off so as to exclude further claim of inheritance to emancipate

Postpone

To defer to a future or later time to put off also to cause to be deferred or put off to delay to adjourn as to postpone the consideration … To defer to a future or later time to put off also to cause to be deferred or put off to delay to adjourn as to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day or indefinitely

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Adjournment

or other meeting or assembly until a later time. The period of interval during which a session is put off, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 42.

Rejourn

To adjourn to put off

Remanet

the assizes, or when it has been made a remanet from one sittings to another, or has been put off by order of Nisi Prius. See A. P., notes to R.S.C. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34. Costs incurred for

Adjournment of the House

Adjournment of the House, means suspension (proceeding) for the day; to put off until a future day. Webster's Law Dictionary, p. 18.

Dilatory

Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once given the procrastination delaying procrastinating loitering as a dilatory servant

Daff

To cast aside to put off to doff

postpone

postpone post·poned post·pon·ing 1 : to put off to a later time 2 : to place later in precedence, preference, or importance ;specif : to subordinate

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