"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 5

Grup znaczeniowych: 10

Kolokacji: 17

(2) repeatedly, continually

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 4

(4) slightly, somewhat

Kolokacji: 2

(5) merely, simply

Kolokacji: 2

1. merely delay = jedynie opóźnienie merely delay

2. simply delay = po prostu opóźnienie simply delay

But the team's persistence simply delayed its decline by a year.
You could simply delay the meeting for a few nights.
We need to save Medicare, not simply delay its bankruptcy.
The court has simply delayed enforcement of the ban for about a week until the next hearing.
Some of the capital budget cuts would simply delay projects not scheduled to start for several years.
But experts said that would simply delay the inevitable collapse.
So if a strike takes place, the studios would simply delay new productions.
Brown is simply delaying paying the Visa bill until after the election.
Are our troops helping create a nation, or simply delaying an inevitable civil war?
In fact, sometimes postponing a film simply delays the inevitable.

(6) due, unduly

Kolokacji: 2

(7) seriously, severely, unreasonably

Kolokacji: 3

(8) considerably, substantially

Kolokacji: 2

(9) effectively, potentially

Kolokacji: 2

(10) unnecessarily, needlessly

Kolokacji: 2

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