putoff
delay
holdup
holdoff
suspension
fristing
foot-dragging
stall for time
waiting game
dilatory
play for time
stall
overwait
forestay
set back
dally
adjournal
footdragger
respite
catch up
defer
postponement
retardation
procrastinate
latency
wait
on hold
trifling
dalliance
restive
dawdling
slowball
not a minute too soon
buy time
lick and a promise
hold off
hit a snag
pendence
put off
time lag
delayer
delayability
eventually
longanimity
delayism
finally
forbearance
patience
long finger
gap
deferred
nonpostponement
disruption
procrastination
interruption
delayable
pend
break
r-tard
cunctatorship
lag
filibuster
forestall
delaying
delayal
what are you waiting for
prolong
yet
helter-skelter
pell-mell
hold fire
intervene
cunctatory
hold
shift off
already
fullness of time
stalling
hold up
fish or cut bait
retard
catch
nod
push off
kick the can down the road
postponer

English words for 'a pretext for delay or inaction'

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