W: (n) stay [Related to: stay] (a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted) "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court"
W: (n) delay [Related to: delay] (the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time)
S: (v) delay, detain, hold up (cause to be slowed down or delayed) "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"