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What does dilatory mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dilatory? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision.
  2. Slow or tardy.
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He said the decision was made in view of what they called dilatory tactics being employed by the lawyers.
Physical discomfort and dilatory airline service make long-haul traveling difficult enough.
That is changing, but employers can be dilatory in encouraging nurses to put in complaints because it is seen as bad publicity for the hospital.
That they have instead been dilatory is a worrying sign of a lack of commitment to the proper safeguarding of human rights.
Not surprisingly, for connoisseurs of media history, the prime optic of this dilatory policy exercise has been censorship.
But in Nicholas's Russia the dilatory procedures alone made recourse to law ruinous for anyone who had no strings to pull.

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