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If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher

Meaning of "put off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PUT OFF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUT OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Put off is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES PUT OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of put off in the English dictionary

The first definition of put off in the dictionary is to postpone or delay. Other definition of put off is to evade by postponement or delay. Put off is also to confuse; disconcert.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUT OFF

put money on
put on
put on one´s thinking cap
put on the dog
put on the map
put on the ritz
put on to
put one across
put one in mind of
put one over on
put one´s back into
put one´s best foot forward
put one´s cards on the table
put one´s feet up
put one´s foot down
put one´s foot in it
put one´s hand to the plough
put one´s head in a noose
put one´s house in order
put one´s money where one´s mouth is

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUT OFF

cart off
cut off
fight off
float off
get off
hit it off
hit off
let off
on and off
point off
right off
set off
show off
start off
straight off
sweat off
take off
tell someone where to get off
turn off
worst off

Synonyms and antonyms of put off in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «put off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUT OFF

Find out the translation of put off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of put off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «put off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

推迟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

posponer
570 millions of speakers

English

put off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्थगित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُطْفِئ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

откладывать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adiar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্ধ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ajourner
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menunda
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aufschieben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

延期する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연기하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sijine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hoãn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அணை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बंद करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

söndürmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rimandare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odłożyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відкладати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a amâna
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπεκφεύγω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sit af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skjuta upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utsette
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of put off

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUT OFF»

The term «put off» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.474 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUT OFF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «put off» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «put off» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about put off

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10 QUOTES WITH «PUT OFF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word put off.
1
Shinzo Abe
Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?
2
Claude Bernard
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
3
Jorge Luis Borges
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
4
C. J. Box
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
5
Mika Brzezinski
I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career.
6
Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
7
John Cleese
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
8
Emma Donoghue
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
9
Leo Durocher
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
10
Greg Egan
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUT OFF»

Discover the use of put off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to put off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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the life-boat
6 men saved 5 men saved Put off and rendered assistance Put off, but services declined ...... 6 men saved Put off, with the view of rendering assistance Ditto ditto 3 men saved Put off and brought vessel safely into harbour . 4 men saved Put off,  ...
‎1865
2
The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
On the subject, “put off the old man, put on the new” (Colossians 3:9-10), he gave a course of many sermons in the following scheme: . Put off pride, and put on humility. . Put off passion, and put on meekness. Put off covetousness, and put on  ...
Matthew Henry
3
The Life-Boat; or Journal of the National Life-Boat Institution
Put off and rendered assistance Lowestoft life-boat .... Southwold life-boat .... Peterhead life-boat .... Walmer life-boat Margate life-boat Caister life-boat Peterhead life-boat .... Yarmouth large life-boat . . Caister life-boat Ditto Lowestoft life-boat .
‎1868
4
Daily Communion with God
Put off pride, and put on humility. . Put off passion, and put on meekness. . Put off covetousness, and put on contentment. . Put off contention, and put on peaceableness. . Put off murmuring, and put on patience. . Put off melancholy, and put on ...
Matthew Henry
5
Reports from Committees
842 5 June 1753 Chelmsford Navigation Bill Put off for six months. New Bill ordered, and passed. \ Vol. LIII. p. 365 13 Mar. 1798 Gloucester Roads Bill Put off for six months. New Bill ordered,' and passed. Vol. LIV. p. 695 26 June 1799 Skipton, ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1860
6
An English and Danish Dictionary ...
I To put off, at aflctgge. 1 To put off the old man, at afleegge det gem/e rue/m. I To put off ones hat, at astagesin but. I To put off, at flzrlmlt, opsztte. I He puts me offsrom day to day, band epbolder 'm'g dag fi-a dag. I He did not long put off his ...
Andreas Berthelson, 1754
7
The Moral Quest: Foundations of Christian Ethics
The presence of the conflict in which believers are engaging leads to one of the apostle's central ethical directives, the repeated admonition to "put off/put on" ( e.g., Rom 13:11-14; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:9-10). Believers must "put off" one reality  ...
Stanley J. Grenz, 2000
8
The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book
Buying a new house will have to be put off until we can afford it. The students begged the teacher to put the test off until the next week. He pressured me for a decision, but I kept putting him off. 2. put ... off p.v. When people put you off, they do ...
Carl W. Hart, 1999
9
Light from the West; or, The Cornish parochial visitor, ed. ...
Put off the old man, Ephesians iv. 22 ; Put on the sew, Ephesians iv. 24. Put off pride, Jeremiah xiii. 15 ; Put on humility, 1 Peter v. 5. Put off passion, Colossians iii. 8 ; Put on meekness, 1 Peter iii. 4. Put off covetousness, Hebrews xiii. 5 ; Put on ...
Henry Addington Simcoe, 1838
10
PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE ONE VOLUME
Q. 54. — ARE Causes ever put off, when ready for trial, and on what grounds ; and are Causes ever taken out of their turn?. - . r:.j.c;;.,3— .k ST. VINCENT. A. — Causes are in general tried according to their order in the docquet.
‎1826

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUT OFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term put off is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sabine Oil, Lenders Put Off Fight Over Cash
An agreement hammered out during Thursday's hearing allows Sabine to use the cash to fund its operations for now, pushing off a fight over rights to the cash ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Could slashing the top rate of tax to 40p put off blue-collar Tories?
Around 160 MPs, and various peers like Lord Lawson, want George Osborne to use his first Budget of the all-Conservative government to slash the top rate of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Procter & Gamble CEO says consumers put off by too much choice
P&G is currently selling off several top beauty brands. Indeed, some 20% of the consumer and packaged goods industry's assortment generates 80% of sales. «Fortune, Jun 15»
4
Any Deal on New Greek Bailout Funds Put Off Until Weekend
BRUSSELS—European finance chiefs pushed off talks to seal a Greek bailout deal until the weekend after ending another meeting without agreement, leaving ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
5
Saudi blogger Badawi's flogging put off again
(CNN) Raif Badawi set up a website to express his views and those of others. For that he was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes with a whipping ... «CNN, Jun 15»
6
Tsipras and Greece Buy Time From IMF
On Thursday, Greece invoked a little-used option to put off that payment and three others, totaling €1.6 billion, until the end of June. Although the practice of ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
7
Burundi elections put off again, fears of violence rise
Elections in Burundi, postponed two weeks ago, have been delayed for a second time — local and legislative. Police have been shooting at protesters in the ... «euronews, Jun 15»
8
Nevada PERS pension reform put off until next session
CARSON CITY — Faced with wildly divergent estimates of the cost of moving Nevada's current public employee pension system to a defined contribution plan ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 15»
9
Why the O'Dome renovation was put off a year
When the design-development agreement for the O'Connell Center expansion and renovation project was signed in October, the University of Florida's first ... «Gainesville Sun, May 15»
10
Will Ed and David's relationship put off potential Labour leaders?
David Miliband has just given a brutal interview to BBC News in which he took a few more words to say 'I told you so' about the way his brother led the Labour ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»

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