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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indefinitely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
postponed indefinitely (=no one knows when it will happen)
▪ His trial has been postponed indefinitely.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
continue
▪ Also, be aware that this happy state of reward for only relative virtue will not continue indefinitely.
▪ Traders pointed to the federal budget stalemate and worries the gridlock could continue indefinitely.
▪ Here the long-term player's type is revealed when play continues indefinitely.
▪ Neither trend can continue indefinitely, he said.
▪ Some economists fear that this trend will continue indefinitely.
▪ The grandchildren would also resemble their common ancestor-and one readily believes that this continues indefinitely.
▪ And so the process continues indefinitely.
▪ Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove will continue indefinitely after Democrats lost a bid to halt it next week.
extend
▪ It has now been established that in cases where the Gateway has been totally excised, this condition may be extended indefinitely.
▪ For the same reason, Democrats wanted the deadline extended indefinitely.
▪ But as soon as it was repeated, its individuality merged into a series extending indefinitely into the future.
postpone
▪ Such a blueprint could not help but postpone indefinitely important questions facing the integrative bodies already in existence.
▪ A referendum to determine the future of the island has been postponed indefinitely.
▪ Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely.
▪ However, the trial has been postponed indefinitely.
▪ On Dec. 13 Landsbergis had announced that a further round of preliminary consultations had been postponed indefinitely by the Soviet side.
▪ No doubt this explains why elections there have been postponed indefinitely.
suspend
▪ She was suspended indefinitely, leaving it open for her to practise again if an appeal succeeds.
▪ But equally we can not, should not and will not indefinitely suspend the democratic process.
▪ On May 16 the trial was suspended indefinitely because of demonstrations taking place outside the courthouse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Pete Rose was barred indefinitely from baseball in 1989 for gambling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But unlike the cannon, it can maintain those conditions indefinitely.
▪ Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without some one getting hurt.
▪ She probably hoped their threesome could go on indefinitely.
▪ That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya - he put her, indefinitely, on hold.
▪ They simply run on indefinitely without ever stopping.
▪ This could not support weak currencies indefinitely.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indefinitely

Indefinitely \In*def"i*nite*ly\, adv. In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.

If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it.
--Ray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indefinitely

early 15c.; see indefinite + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
indefinitely

adv. 1 For a long time, no end defined 2 forever

WordNet
indefinitely

adv. to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time; "this could go on indefinitely"

Usage examples of "indefinitely".

The limits of the latter therefore seem to be indefinitely extended, whilst on the other hand tradition, and polemics too in many cases, demanded an adherence to the shortest formula.

So instead of producing the authoritarian institutions that were the inevitable outcome of the ferocious power struggles and ideological confusions characteristic of social evolution on Earth, Jevlenese society developed as a kind of patronized anarchy, secure in the guarantee of unlimited goods and products indefinitely, and the total absence of threats.

Everything would probably have gone on like that indefinitely, since he had convinced himself that bugling was nothing, had it 20 not been for that deathbed promise to his mother and for Dixie Wells.

I understand, been not infrequently robbed in the past whilst in conclave, and so long as those of Turland, Renigard and The Doldrums are at large you may expect the robberies to continue indefinitely.

The writer must put in the last full stop, which may be as brutal as the suicide of the hero, a solution often considered in the notebooks, or indefinitely suspended like an organ fermata, prolonging the sublime note of reconciliation into the future.

If he could just convince one more senator to spell him on the filibuster, they could filibuster indefinitely.

But it was a laggard and ice-thin prosperity, and Sarah was worried about her daughter: her son-in-law was a licensed pipe fitter, laid off indefinitely by a Tampa-area natural gas distributor.

Not only had the old sorcerers learned to displace their assemblage points to thousands of positions on the surface or on the inside of their energy masses but they had also learned to fixate their assemblage points on those positions, and thus retain their cohesiveness, indefinitely.

I feared to reveal the truth, for they might take my claim to be a Hibernating Man as a sign of lunacy, and keep me locked up indefinitely.

I shall tell the Emir el Hamel el Kebir that I intend to remain here indefinitely, under his protection, and that I hope he will give you your precious treaty, and send you off at once.

The ligand field of each particle expands indefinitely, they say now, which is going to open up a whole new field of research.

Lady Pembury is very attached to them both, and wished them to stay indefinitely, but it so happens that they have to trasact some business with a gentleman of Oxford concerning a mutal property in Spain, and since the roads are none too safe for foreign ladies travelling alone, I wonder now whether you and young Cobtree will undertake to be Squires of Dames and ride as their escort, since you are also bound for Oxford?

He has regarded my withdrawal only as a necessary period of recapitulation, another step of learning, which may last indefinitely.

Paula was in the hands of a ruthless killer who savoured death too much to allow her to live indefinitely?

If farther attachments be required for the accommodation of out-building conveniences, they may be continued indefinitely in the rear.