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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

adjournal, adjournment, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, dallying, deferment, deferral, delay, elongation, endurance, extension, extension of time, lag, lengthening, lingering, maintenance, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, postponement, procrastination, production, progress, progression, prolongation, prorogation, pursuance, putting-off, repetition, run, stay, staying power, straight course, strain, stretch, stretching, stringing out, suspension, sustained action, sustenance, tabling, tension, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, way

Dictionary Results for protraction:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

protraction
    n 1: the consequence of being lengthened in duration [syn:
         lengthiness, prolongation, continuation,
         protraction]
    2: the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite
       prolongation of the peace talks" [syn: prolongation,
       protraction, perpetuation, lengthening]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Protraction \Pro*trac"tion\, n. [L. protractio.]
   1. A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the
      termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay;
      as, the protraction of a debate.
      [1913 Webster]

            A protraction only of what is worst in life.
                                                  --Mallock.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Surv.)
      (a) The act or process of making a plot on paper.
      (b) A plot on paper.
          [1913 Webster]

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