delaying

English

Verb

delaying

1. present participle and gerund of delay

Noun

delaying (plural delayings)

1. A delay.
   • 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North:

     […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.

   • 1909, Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden:

     However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland […]