"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
(4) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(5) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(6) due, unduly
Kolokacji: 2
2. severely delayed = poważnie opóźnić severely delayed
  • It had been hoped that this section would open in May but a particularly wet winter severely delayed construction work.
  • The project is now severely delayed as a result of the financial crash in Dubai.
  • Vocabulary acquisition is often severely delayed for preschool age children.
  • The space craft was completed in 1997, but the development of the penetrators were severely delayed.
  • The construction was severely delayed due to shortage of funds.
  • The big networks use airline computer systems to find out if the flights they are meeting will be severely delayed.
  • This decision meant that Netscape's next major version was severely delayed.
  • Initially, completion of the new tower was expected in August 2008, but construction works were severely delayed.
  • However this extension was severely delayed and didn't open until 31 August 2011.
  • Completion of all five and in particular the last three, severely delayed by shipyard financial problems.
3. unreasonably delayed = nadmiernie opóźniony unreasonably delayed
(8) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(9) effectively, potentially
Kolokacji: 2
(10) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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