1. admit of no delay : 刻不容缓;
2. without delay : 毫不迟延地;
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1. 使延期;使延迟;推迟
If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
2. 使延误;使耽搁
To delay someone or something means to make them late or to slow them down.
3. (故意)拖延,磨蹭
If you delay, you deliberately take longer than necessary to do something.
4. 延期;延迟;推迟
If there is a delay, something does not happen until later than planned or expected.
5. 延误;耽搁
Delay is a failure to do something immediately or in the required or usual time.
1. the act of delaying
inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
Synonym: holdup
2. time during which some action is awaited
e.g. instant replay caused too long a delay
he ordered a hold in the action
Synonym: holdtime lagpostponementwait