📚 Delay, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈleɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Postpone or defer (an action) ❗️ Examples: 1. He may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates. 2. Most governors and legislatures would rather make budget cuts or delay some of their tax cuts for now. 3. Her ankle would take a while to heal so we decided to press, there was no point in delaying any longer than we had to. 4. The Faculty of the University recommended him for a chair of theoretical physics but the Department of Educational Affairs decided to delay confirming the post. 5. If he continues to delay paying the bill, he will have to take his seriously ill 1-year-old out of hospital. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic