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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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