Usually means: Extends duration or lengthens time.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. protracts: Merriam-Webster
  2. protracts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. protracts: Vocabulary.com
  4. protracts: Wordnik
  5. protracts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. protracts: Wiktionary
  7. protracts: Dictionary.com
  8. Protracts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. protracts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protracts: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. protracts: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. protracts: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (protract)

verb:  To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
verb:  To use a protractor.
verb:  (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
verb:  To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
verb:  To extend; to protrude.
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