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Plural of delay

regular plural

The plural of delay is delays.

Forms of delay

Singulardelay /dɪˈleɪ/
Pluraldelays
Countablecountable and uncountable

Delays in a sentence

  • Two twenty minutes' delays.
  • In this article I'm thinking about the big delays, over two hours.2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42
  • He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.From the entry none
  • Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.From the entry funnel
  • If delays occur during staging, both drivers and companies can lose money.2025 August 27, “Beyond the Loading Dock: Optimizing Warehousing and Driver Safety with Altitude”, in Freight Waves, archived from the…. From the entry staging

Meaning of delay

  1. noun A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
  2. noun An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
  3. noun Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).

Full definition of delay

Questions about the plural of delay

What is the plural of delay?
The plural of delay is delays.
Is delay countable?
Delay is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delay (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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