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繰り下げる (くりさげる) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

繰くり下さげる

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Meanings

1

ichidan verb, transitive verb

defer; postpone; move down

Used for rescheduling an event, deadline, or time slot to a later point, or for shifting something downward in order or position.

会かい議ぎの開かい始し時じ間かんを30分ぷん繰くり下さげた。
We postponed the start of the meeting by 30 minutes.
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下さ

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The deadline was moved down to next week.

Written forms

繰くり下さげるUsage26%
Standard kanji spelling; used in news and formal contexts.
繰くり下さげるUsage74%
Variant with the okurigana り omitted; less common but still encountered.

Kanji

繰winding, reel, spin
下below, down, descend

Similar words

延えん期きする
延期する is a more general term for postponing an event or plan, while 繰り下げる specifically implies moving something to a later time slot or position within a schedule or sequence.
繰くり上あげる
Antonym: 繰り上げる means to move something up to an earlier time or position.

Etymology

Compound of 繰り (kuri, continuative form of 繰る 'to reel, to spin') + 下げる (sageru, 'to lower'). Literally 'to reel down', referring to shifting something downward in order or time.