stalling
staw ling
- n a tactic used to mislead or delay
- v postpone doing what one should be doing
- v come to a stop
- v deliberately delay an event or action
she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling - v put into, or keep in, a stall
- v experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- v cause an airplane to go into a stall
- v cause an engine to stop
The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car
- The art of stalling: making a point by talking and talking and talking.
- No plan can change the fundamental economics of a bubble deflating or an economy stalling of overpriced homes returning to more reasonable prices and out-of-work homeowners not .
- Meeting in Chicago, the National Association of Basketball Coaches voted for the most drastic rule change in 25 years, a rule to prevent "stalling.