Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
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Examples
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A signature that spelled the end of a protractive and unpopular campaign.
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A signature that spelled the end of a protractive and unpopular campaign.
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It's a very difficult and protractive conflict, but it's a very dangerous conflict.
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Lights sprang up in the basement windows, telling of protractive legal labours.
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When the day of judgment shall bring us together, I will beg of our Lord a protractive trial.
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Despite of not only relative, but absolutely anemic gas price, a protractive period of recovery in our International markets, which we obviously will discuss more later, and continued delays in the resumption of normalized activity in the Gulf of Mexico.
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"We're grateful the judge considered all the arguments on all sides and after careful and rather protractive deliberation process he came out and made the decision allowing our client to go home," said Pelaez 'lawyer, John Rodriguez.
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In other scenarios, there can be such little demand for a product, such as vacant land in the suburbs that the exposure time becomes very protractive with carrying cost to the bank and has the same negative effect on our ultimate recovery.
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