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put back

verb

  1. to return to its former place
  2. to move to a later time or date

    the wedding was put back a fortnight

  3. to delay or impede the progress of

    the strike put back production severely

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"It may be that staff didn't attach a card or tag immediately, or that it simply fell off and was put back on the wrong baby or on the wrong crib."

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These had been put back to give space for a negotiated solution.

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Under court order, some of these webpages have been put back up, even if with this defiant note:

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“And I just love the way they can put back into the players.â€

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Yaxley-Lennon's High Court case had meant that an unrelated prosecution, for allegedly refusing to comply with a counter-terrorism search of his phone, had been put back months.

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