Meaning of slow-walk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
   especially, idiomatic, transitive
2. To punish, to chastise.
   transitive

Examples

“many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.”

“Since assuming office, Trump has issued many private demands to aides that have either been slow-walked or altogether ignored.”

“Mr. Pulte argued that Mr. Siebert was slow-walking the James case in order to get confirmed by the Senate for a job in a state with two Democratic senators, according to people briefed on the conversation.”

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