English-French translations for put off

• ajourner
• enlever
  Pour ce faire, il faut enlever l'aléa, les décisions qui sont chaque jour reportées, et il faut éviter de se poser sans arrêt des questions sur le point de savoir si on peut ou non décider. To do so, we must eliminate uncertainty, the decisions that are put off each day, and we must stop constantly wondering whether or not we can take decisions.
• rebuter
• remettre
  Nous ne pouvons plus remettre les décisions à pus tard. We cannot put off decisions any longer.
  Nous ne pouvons plus remettre à plus tard cette décision. We cannot put off this decision any longer.
  C'est une chose sur laquelle nous ne devons pas faire de compromis et que nous ne devons pas remettre à plus tard. That is something we must not compromise on or put off until some future date.
• renvoyer
• reporter
  C'est une question que nous ne pouvons pas reporter à 2006. That is something that cannot be put off until 2006.

Definition of put off

• To procrastinate
• To delay (a task, event, etc
• To distract; to disturb the concentration of
• To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing
• To take off (something worn
• offended, repulsed
• daunted or fazed

Examples

• Dont put off your homework to the last minute.
• Dont put your homework off to the last minute.
• Dont put it off to the last minute.
• Dont put it off.
• The storm put off the game by a week.
• The storm put the game off by a week.
• Im too busy to see Mr Smith today. Ill have to put him off.
• Please be quiet. Im trying to concentrate and youre putting me off.
• Almost drowning put him off swimming.
• to put off a mask
• The guest was quite put off by an odor.
• All but the most dedicated were put off by the huge task.

Related words

• putting off
• putative offence
• never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
• don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today
• to put off
• put someone off the scent
• put something off
• off-putting