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Delaying vs Behindhand - What's the difference?

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Delaying is a related term of behindhand.


As a verb delaying

is .

As a noun delaying

is a delay.

As an adjective behindhand is

late, tardy, overdue.

As an adverb behindhand is

belatedly, tardily.

delaying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A delay.
  • * 1909 , (Reginald Farrer), In a Yorkshire Garden
    • However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings ; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland

    behindhand

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Late, tardy, overdue.
  • *1975 , (Paul Fussell), The Great War and Modern Memory , OUP 2013, p. 148:
  • in debt, or in arrears

    • Derived terms

    * behindhandness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • belatedly, tardily
  • in debt, or in arrears