protraction
- noun
- /prəʊˈtrækʃən/
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prolongación
- The protraction of the negotiations caused frustration among the stakeholders, who wanted to reach an agreement quickly.
Examples
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Due to the protraction of the project timeline, we need to allocate more resources to meet the new deadlines.
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Like many in the Union Army, Bierce blamed the protraction of the war and the profusion of the bloodshed largely on poor leadership.
Fiction book (1998) -
Arbitration would avoid the need for a further protraction of the ongoing court cases, moving the dispute out of the courts and into the hands of a neutral third party who would review evidence and render a decision that both parties would be legally obligated to accept.
Blog text (1) -
"And so it seems we owe the universal protraction of men's hair (and general lack of journalist inquiries on the topic) to a 1960s "YOLO" moment." - Amanda Koellner
Blog text (17) -
He complained about the protraction of the meeting, as it lasted much longer than expected.
Synonyms
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3.6
An act of something keeping going without stopping
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7.6
To make something continue for a long time
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6.7
An increase in the length of something
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3.7
Making something longer in time or distance
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6.5
An extra period of time that makes something last longer
Being longer than needed or comfortable
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Protraction breaks into pro- which means 'forward' and tract which means 'to pull', the same part you see in tractor that pulls things, so a protraction is like pulling time forward — keeping something going or making it last longer.