time lag
We had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport.航班延误，我们不得不在机场苦等了9个小时。
Trains may be subject to delay on the northern line - we apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Please settle your account without further delay.
There are delays on the M4 because of roadworks.M4号公路道路施工，发生了阻塞。
We should arrive at ten o'clock, as long as there are no unexpected delays.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Delaying and wasting time
ado
busywork
buy timeidiom
carry something over
dally
gridlock
inefficiency
inefficiently
kept
kick
kick something into the long grassidiom
push
retard
retardation
set someone back (something)
shelve
sit
sit on something
spin
stall

delay | American Dictionary

delay
verb[ I/T ]
us/dɪˈleɪ/
to cause to be late or to cause to happen at a later time, or to wait before acting:
[ T ]He wants to delay the meeting until Wednesday.
[ T ]The space launch was delayed because of bad weather.
[ I ]Don’t delay in ordering tickets to the show.
delay
noun[ C/U ]
us/dɪˈleɪ/
a period when something that might happen does not happen or does not happen quickly enough, or the failure to act quickly:
[ U ]You need to call back without delay.
[ C ]The holiday traffic is likely to cause long delays.
[ C ]Any further delay would threaten the entire project.

Examples of delay

delay
While the community care legislation was enacted in 1990, full implementation was delayed until 1993.
Of course, the reaction in birth rates was delayed, but it is occurring.
She was in a special education preschool for her language delays and behavior.
More generally, we investigate the asymptotics of solutions for the equation (1.1) involving also non-commutable delays of the above type.
Suppose the foreign exchange and trade reforms could be achieved first-e. g., if powerful domestic forces delayed the raising of energy prices.
Differences in social signals produced by children with developmental delays of differing etiologies.
Issues such as these require no real data, and, certainly, action to address them must not be delayed.
In addition, as noted earlier, delays in physical growth and behavioral development are typical in institutional settings.
However, children with autism also were impaired on the delayed response task.
In this study, developmental delays were seen in some infants as early as 12 months (equivalent to developmental age of 9 months).
In part, then, language delays may be due to problems with the early development of speech perception and phonological representations.
In both the juveniles and infants, the caudatelesioned monkeys were impaired on both spatial delayed response and alternation relative to age-matched controls.
In that case, the behavioral effects of early insult are likely to be delayed and may be more extensive than first thought.
Right upper venous dratriage is delayed, and the stenous is some distance proximal to the site of anastomosis.
Thus, in the absence of dormancy, delayed and slower rates of germination are evidence of reduced seed vigour and quality.
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Collocations withdelay

delay

These are words often used in combination with delay.

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average delay
The averagedelay between reading assessments was 1 year 7 months.
brief delay
After a briefdelay, children were given an elicited production task.
bureaucratic delay
The authorities seem to have done all in their power to subject this petition to bureaucraticdelay.
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