dilatory
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Learner's definition of DILATORY
formal
1 : causing a delay
- The committee's dilatory [=delaying] actions caused the loss of hundreds of jobs.
2 [more dilatory; most dilatory] : tending to be late : slow to do something
- She tends to be dilatory [=slow] about answering letters.
— dilatoriness
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