Usually means: Slowing down or delaying progress.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. retardment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retardment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retardment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retardment: Wordnik
  5. retardment: Wiktionary
  6. Retardment: Dictionary.com
  7. Retardment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. retardment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Retardment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. retardment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. retardment: Free Dictionary
  12. Retardment: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. retardment: Legal dictionary

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  1. Retardment: Encyclopedia

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  1. Retardment: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  Retardation; the act of retarding or delaying.

Similar:
retardation, retarding, restrainment, retainal, retrocession, retaining, deferral, deferment, redetention, retention, more...

Opposite:
advancement, progress, development, improvement

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Similar:
retardation, retarding, restrainment, retainal, retrocession, retaining, deferral, deferment, redetention, retention, more...

Opposite:
advancement, progress, development, improvement



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