"delay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

delay verbo

delay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 81
delay action • delay one's departure • delay construction • delay one's plans • delay the release • delay the start • delay a decision • ...
verbo + delay
Kolokacji: 15
want to delay • try to delay • decide to delay • keep delaying • consider delaying • ...
delay + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
delayed until • delay by • delayed for • delayed after • delayed in • ...
delay + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 38
further delay • delay no longer • delayed indefinitely • repeatedly delayed • significantly delayed • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(2) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
2. continually delayed = ciągle opóźnić continually delayed
  • However, the construction of the bypass was continually delayed due to environmental issues and politics.
  • Progress toward construction of the bypass was continually delayed.
  • By early September production was scheduled to begin, with a planned broadcast of late September, but these plans were continually delayed.
  • He was forced to renew his intention several times as his attempt was continually delayed by bad weather.
  • The German Sixth Army was continually delayed by fuel shortages.
  • Due to the 1973 oil crisis and problems at parent company British Leyland, the car was continually delayed.
  • The project was continually delayed, and in 1941 Sabatini published his story as a novel instead.
  • But the company continually delayed identifying employee 2832, Mr. Clark said.
  • Brunei has been interested in acquiring this model, but any prospective order has been continually delayed since the mid-1980s.
  • Political and legal wrangling had continually delayed a final conclusion regarding the unofficial seat for the parliament.
(4) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(5) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(6) due, unduly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(9) effectively, potentially
Kolokacji: 2
(10) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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