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delay; put off; postpone

Verb

  1. 1

    delay; put off; postpone

    To put off a work or a planned time to sometime later.

    Korean definition: 일이나 정해진 때를 나중으로 넘기다.

    • This weekend I plan to do the housework I put off all week.

    • Yumin kept putting off her vacation homework until the very end and ended up staying up all night before school started.

  2. 2

    shift responsibility

    To shift a job, responsibility, etc., onto someone.

    Korean definition: 남에게 일이나 책임 등을 떠넘기다.

    • Manager Lee shifted the remaining work onto Assistant Manager Kim and left work first.

    • After finishing the meal, my friends said they had no money and kept passing the bill to each other.

  3. 3

    guess; infer; judge by

    To guess something based on the facts that one already knows.

    Korean definition: 이미 알고 있는 사실로 다른 것을 미리 헤아리다.

    • Judging from how clean the house is, the owner must be a very tidy person.

    • Just by looking at the palaces remaining today, we can infer the splendid life of the royal family at that time.