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What does protract mean?

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Verb
  1. To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
  2. To use a protractor.
  3. (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
  4. To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
  5. To extend; to protrude.
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Rather than setting out the conditions for stabilisation, it would protract or even increase instability, requiring an even more important international presence for a longer-term.
Men and women are encouraged to protract their sexually active lives, regardless of desire.
I repeat we do not want to protract the conference but I can see no reason why it could not end for instance in January, if need be.
Recently the chancellor made clear that he was willing to risk investment in the new green economy to protract the life old way of doing things.
His strategy was to protract negotiations until the enemy were exhausted, while assembling the forces necessary to crush them.
To deprive a successful litigant of interest on his or her legal costs is to encourage the losing side to delay and protract the assessment process.

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