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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a pretext for delay or inaction; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Put-off \Put"-off`\ (?; 115), n.
   A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.
   --L'Estrange.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

putoff
    n 1: a pretext for delay or inaction