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Home Dictionary Name: put off Page: 2 Page 2 of about 39 results ( seconds)Dilatory
Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once given the procrastination delaying procrastinating loitering as a dilatory servant...
Defer
To put off to postpone to a future time to delay the execution of to delay to withhold...
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 (a lien) to a later lien post·pon·able adj post·pone·ment n ...
adjourn
adjourn : to put off further proceedings of either indefinitely or until a later stated time : close formally [ing the session] vi : to suspend a session or meeting till another time or indefinitely : suspend formal business or procedure and disband [the congress will next month] ad·journ·ment n ...
Prorogation
Prorogation, prolonging or putting off to another day.A prorogation is the continuance of the Parliament from one session to another, with the effect that bills, whatever stage they have reached, drop and have to be taken up from the beginning in a succeeding session; an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day.Prorogation never extends beyond eighty days, but fresh prorogations may take place from time to time by proclamation. See PARLIAMENT.Under Article 85(2) when the President on the advice of the Prime Minister prorogues the House, there is termination of a session of the House and this is called prorogation. When the House is prorogued, all the pending proceedings of the House are not quashed and pending Bills do not lapse. The prorogation of the House may take place at any time either after the adjournment of the House or even while the House is sitting, Special Reference No. 1 of 2002 (in re Gujarat Assembly Election Matter, (2002) 8 SCC 237 (278). [Constitu...
Respite
A putting off of that which was appointed a postponement or delay...
Procrastination
The act or habit of procrastinating or putting off to a future time delay dilatoriness...
Postponement
The act of postponing a deferring or putting off to a future time a temporary delay...
Deferrer
One who defers or puts off...
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