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51cooling-off period — a time during which a person can withdraw from a binding contract without any serious penalty. A cooling off period is not normally available. It applies in terms of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 where contracts such as hire purchase contracts are …
52hold off — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you hold off doing something, you delay doing it or delay making a decision about it. [V P ing] The hospital staff held off taking Rosenbaum in for an X ray... [V P] They have threatened military action but held off until now.… …
53put something off — POSTPONE, defer, delay, put back, adjourn, hold over, reschedule, shelve, table; informal put on ice, put on the back burner. → put * * * postpone something they can t put off a decision much longer * * * ˌput sthˈoff derived to change sth to a… …
54Receive-after-transmit time delay — In telecommunication, receive after transmit time delay is the time interval between (a) the instant of keying off the local transmitter to stop transmitting and (b) the instant the local receiver output has increased to 90% of its steady state… …
55put off — I postpone, delay; avoid. See lateness, avoidance. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. postpone, defer, retard; see delay . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item): fob off, foist, palm off, pass off.… …
56Lackawanna Cut-Off — The westbound Lackawanna Limited comes off the Pequest Fill shortly after the opening of the Lackawanna Cut Off. Taken from the signal tower at the east end of Greendell Siding, this early 1912 photo was used as a template for a Phoebe Snow… …
57hold off — verb a) To delay someone or something temporarily; to keep at bay. Lets try to hold off the lawyers until we are ready for them. b) To delay commencing (an action until some specified time or event has passed). Hold off the decision one more day… …
58hold-off — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun ( s) Etymology: hold off : the act or period of holding off : a delay or period of delay or postponement …
59Denis Mazhukov and the Off Beat — Infobox Musical artist Name = Denis Mazhukov and the Off Beat Genre = Piano Rock Origin = Moscow, Russia Years active = 1994–present Label = SNC Records URL = [http://www.offbeat.ru/indexe.php http://www.offbeat.ru/indexe.php] Current members =… …
60put off — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms put off : present tense I/you/we/they put off he/she/it puts off present participle putting off past tense put off past participle put off 1) to make someone not want to do something, or to make someone not… …
