STALLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stalling mean? 

• STALLING (noun)
  The noun STALLING has 1 sense:

1. a tactic used to mislead or delay

  Familiarity information: STALLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STALLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tactic used to mislead or delay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

stall; stalling

Hypernyms ("stalling" is a kind of...):

obstruction (the act of obstructing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stalling"):

stonewalling (stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate)

Derivation:

stall (deliberately delay an event or action)

 Context examples 

As a non-selective, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), piroxicam binds and chelates both isoforms of cyclooxygenases (COX1 and COX2), thereby stalling phospholipase A2 activity and conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandin precursors at the rate limiting cyclooxygenase enzyme step.

(Piroxicam, NCI Thesaurus)