He had a very 'delayed' reaction to the medication. [=a reaction that did not happen immediately]
The nurse apologized for the 'delay' [='wait'] and said that the doctor would be in shortly.
Production problems 'delayed' the introduction of the new model by several months.
(..) You don't think he sounds kinda goofy? No! You know that break beat, right? Well, I been takin' it to some next level shit. Like, I'll take that and put a delay on it, so it's like... So it's, like, evolving, the beat. So it, like, sounds hella large on the track. You know what I'm sayin'? (..)2003 Lost in Translation