Usually means: Parameter passing delays argument evaluation.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (call-by-name)

noun:  (programming) An evaluation strategy whereby an argument to a function is evaluated each time its value is used in the function, and is not evaluated at all if its value is never used.

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