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I won’t detain you any longer

When you detain someone, you hold them back, slow them down, or stop them from moving on. If you are detained by the police, you may be late for the big football game

When police keep a suspect at the station for questioning, this is an example of a situation where the police detain the suspect.

A ​suspect is being detained by the ​police for ​further questioning.

1. Three men were detained by police for questioning. 2. I won't detain you any longer. Go to your children!

‘she was detained without trial for two years’

He's been detained by security because of his suspicious behaviour at the airport.

He had been seen at the crime site and later the police detained him for questioning.

In case the shipment is delayed, we have special delay insurance.

If the delay is simply an oversight, will you please take care of it at once?

delayed flight

... was inconclusive, because the delay was too short to...

John Tel is expected to delay the release of its chip set until August.

Every reporter sent his stories with the least possible delay.

I regret the delay in writing to you to thank you for your hospitality on my visit to your country.

Don’t delay leaving – it won’t ease your grief.

Malzahar opens up two portals to the Void which, after a 0.5-second delay, silence all enemies caught between them and deal them magic damage.

Sorry, I was delayed by the traffic. His delay cost the company thousands of dollars. I was delayed by traffic.

There was a delay at the airport because of the fog, but eventually our flight left four hours late.

I hate public transport delays! The plane to Spain was delayed by 2 hours, so we got to our hotel very late.

The period or amount of time during which something is delayed.

But they could not long have delayed her going home.

It has been announced for this year, and so this would not mean too much of a delay.