set out your stall
stall
verb
uk /stɔːl/ us /stɑːl/

stallverb (ENGINE)

[ I or T ]
If an engine stalls, or if you stall it, it stops working suddenly and without you intending it to happen: （使）（发动机）熄火
A car may stall due to the driver braking too suddenly.司机踩刹车过猛可能会导致汽车熄火。
I stalled the car twice during my driving test but still managed to pass.我在驾驶考试时两次把车弄熄火，不过还是勉强通过了考试。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - not functioning
act up
balky
blooey
break down
broken
brokenness
brownout
defunct
downtime
fail
flat
outage
power (something) down
seize
seize up
short circuit
shot
shudder
shut
whack

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stallverb (DELAY)

[ I ]
to delay taking action or avoid giving an answer in order to have more time to make a decision or get an advantage: 拖延
stall (for time)She says she'll give me the money next week but I think she's just stalling (for time).她说下周会把钱给我，但我认为她只不过是在拖时间。
[ T ]
If you stall a person, you delay them or prevent them from doing something for a period of time: 拖住（某人）
I managed to stall him for a few days until I'd got enough money to pay back the loan.我设法拖住了他几天，直到我筹够了还贷款的钱。
stall someone offmainly USThe thief broke into the office while his accomplice stalled off the security guard.小偷趁同伙拖住保安之际，闯进了办公室。
[ I ]
to stop making progress: 停止进展
Japan's economic growth has stalled, with industrial production contracting in June for the fourth straight month.日本经济陷入停滞状态，到六月份时工业产出值已连续四个月缩减。
[ T ]
If you stall an event, you delay it or prevent it from making progress: 推迟，暂缓;搁置
Commandos stalled the enemy attack by destroying three bridges.突击队破坏了3座桥，拖延了敌人的进攻。
Fears are growing that a tax increase may stall economic recovery.人们越来越担心增税可能会阻碍经济复苏。

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Delaying and wasting time
ado
busywork
buy timeidiom
carry something over
dally
gridlock
hold up
inefficiency
inefficiently
kept
kick
pigeonhole
push
raincheck
retard
retardation
set someone back (something)
shelve
sit
spin

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stall | American Dictionary

stall
verb[ I/T ]
us/stɔl/

stallverb[I/T] (DELAY)

to delay or put off action:
[ I ]They’re just stalling, trying to avoid making a decision.
[ T ]I can stall him for a few minutes.

stallverb[I/T] (STOP WORKING)

to cause a vehicle or engine to stop suddenly, or of a vehicle or engine to stop suddenly:
[ I ]My car stalled at the traffic light.
stall
noun[ C ]
us/stɔl/

stallnoun[C] (AREA)

a separate area in which an animal is kept
A stall is also a small enclosed space used for a particular purpose:
The bathroom had a tiled shower stall.

stall | Business English

stall
verb
uk /stɔːl/us
[ I or T ]
if a process or system stalls or something stalls it, it suddenly stops developing or making progress:
Japan's economic growth has stalled.
Contract negotiations between management and the union have stalled again.
I don't believe there was a deliberate plan to stall the process.
[ I ]
if someone stalls, they do not answer a question immediately or continue a discussion, in order to give themselves more time to think:
"I have to look it up on my machine at home," he said stalling for time.
stall
noun[ C ]
 COMMERCEuk /stɔːl/us
a table or structure from which someone sells things on the street or in an outdoor market:
She set up a stall at the fair to sell her jewelery.
A long row of market stalls was filled with every kind of food you could imagine.

Examples of stall

stall
The previously-mentioned use of the wood of their stalls as a substitute is adequate grounds for the second complaint.
The market traders rent stalls from the market manager, and usually occupy the same stalls on the same days.
A draft bill stalled for weeks owing to lack of resources.
The sources used are registrations of the letting of market stalls, guild regulations, tax registers and baptism, marriage and burial registers.
If drought and agricultural depression stalled enclosure in the mid-1890s, the onset of the rinderpest epizootic in 1896 lent it a new urgency.
In one case she" stalled" an order for multiple copies of a book, although this seems subsequently to have been allowed to pass.
Nevertheless, insufficient support was forthcoming and by the project had stalled.
Proposed improvements in bank regulatory oversight, stalled before the crisis, were now rammed through.
During the days of faeces collection, the straw bedding was removed from the stalls.
All types of units were eligible for inclusion: restaurants, food stalls and pushcarts.
Growth in the first few years was very steep, then stalled, but then rebound after the 2005 legislative changes.
To avoid the problem of stalling acceleration, we introduced a phase delay.
The front row of the stalls on a first night, has a character of its own.
The model stalled about the same time as research on multiple equilibria did.
The contract for £450 sterling to ' repair ' the king's chapel records that 'desks, stalls, lofts and other necessaries ' were to be inserted.
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Collocations withstall

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bathroom stall
At this point, the attacker had locked himself in a bathroomstall.
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