to delay sb an hour

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• hour — W1S1 [auə US aur] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(60 minutes)¦ 2¦(business/work etc)¦ 3 (work) long/regular etc hours 4¦(time of day)¦ 5¦(long time)¦ 6¦(o clock)¦ 7 1300/1530/1805 etc hours 8 by the hour/from hour to hour 9 lunch/din …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• delay — vb 1 Delay, retard, slow, slacken, detain are not always close synonyms, but they carry the same basic meaning: to cause someone or something to be behind in his or its schedule or usual rate of movement or progress. Delay implies the operation,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• delay - cancel - postpone — ◊ delay If you delay doing something, you do it at a later time. The government delayed granting passports to them until a week before their departure. Try and persuade them to delay some of the changes. If a plane, train, ship, or bus is delayed …   Useful english dictionary

• delay — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous (esp. BrE), lengthy, long, major, serious, significant, substantial ▪ After a considerable …   Collocations dictionary

• delay — de|lay1 W3S2 [dıˈleı] n 1.) [C ] when someone or something has to wait, or the length of the waiting time ▪ Sorry for the delay, Mr Weaver. delay in ▪ Why was there a delay in warning the public? delay of ▪ a delay of about an hour… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• delay — [[t]dɪle͟ɪ[/t]] ♦♦ delays, delaying, delayed 1) VERB If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later. [V n/ ing] For sentimental reasons I wanted to delay my departure… …   English dictionary

• delay — 01. The flight was [delayed] by bad weather. 02. They have [delayed] their move to the West Coast until his job is confirmed. 03. What s the big [delay] all about? Let s get going! 04. My sister and her husband [delayed] having children until… …   Grammatical examples in English

• delay — delayable, adj. delayer, n. delayingly, adv. /di lay /, v.t. 1. to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared. 2. to impede the process or progress of; retard; hinder: The dense fog delayed… …   Universalium

• delay clock — clock like mechanism which can be set to begin working at a specific hour …   English contemporary dictionary

• Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome — Classification and external resources ICD 10 G47.2 ICD 9 327.34 …   Wikipedia

• Four Hour Emergency Target — The Four Hour Emergency Target was introduced by the Department of Health for National Health Service acute hospitals in England. Setting a target that, by 2004, at least 98% of patients attending an A E department must be seen, treated, admitted …   Wikipedia