delayed-action

Also de·lay-ac·tion

[dih-leyd-ak-shuhn]

adjective

1. (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.

delayed action

noun

1. 1. a device for operating a mechanism, such as a camera shutter, a short time after setting

   2. ( as modifier )

      a delayed-action fuse

Word History and Origins

Origin of delayed-action¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

In a delayed-action scenario, debt in 2050-51 would be 23% of GDP higher than in the early-action scenario, it said.

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For the past few days, entering the complex has been “like trying to avoid triggering an invisible delayed-action land mine,” said Steve Herman, Voice of America’s White House bureau chief.

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Mr. Lewis remembers the devastation of delayed-action explosive devices left by the Germans and the “slag heap” from the eruption of Vesuvius, just southeast of Naples, in March 1944.

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Cyber attacks could not only lead to losses of information, but also, through delayed-action malware, trigger "silent, ticking digital time bombs" that could manipulate data and sabotage equipment, especially critical infrastructure, the report said.

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The statement, which ran in North Korean state media, said the plot’s origins began in 2014 and that South Korean agents, in collusion with the CIA, gave more than $100,000 and satellite communications equipment to the North Korean citizen to orchestrate an attack on Mr. Kim during a public event using a delayed-action biochemical poison.

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