Meaning

1 senses
  1. An excuse made to delay or stall.

    a pretext for delay or inaction

Origin

Deverbal from put off.

Deverbal from put off.

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Forms

plural: putoffs
Singularputoff
Pluralputoffs

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedput off

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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