0 past simple and past participle of stall --
1 If an engine stalls, or if you stall it, it stops working suddenly and without you intending it to happen: --
2 to delay taking action or avoid giving an answer in order to have more time to make a decision or get an advantage: --
Fears are growing that a tax increase may stall economic recovery.
Commandos stalled the enemy attack by destroying three bridges.
Japan's economic growth has stalled, with industrial production contracting in June for the fourth straight month.
mainly US The thief broke into the office while his accomplice stalled off the security guard.
I managed to stall him for a few days until I'd got enough money to pay back the loan.
She says she'll give me the money next week but I think she's just stalling (for time).
At the same time, the programme of poverty alleviation and redistribution has stalled completely.
Negotiations stalled in late 2003, and the 2005 deadline for the agreement passed uncelebrated.
The symbol is used when the expansion gets stalled (that is, one reaches a non-solvable subterm).
In this model a lesion located on the leading strand has stalled the replication fork.
Physiotherapists can use this time and the impetus of a new treatment to kick-start a stalled patient's progress.
If drought and agricultural depression stalled enclosure in the mid-1890s, the onset of the rinderpest epizootic in 1896 lent it a new urgency.
Proposed improvements in bank regulatory oversight, stalled before the crisis, were now rammed through.
Fortunately, these disagreements have not stalled efforts to identify biological or psychological risk markers or to develop and test early intervention and prevention programs.
