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stretch out

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stretch out [′strech ¦au̇t]
(industrial engineering)
A reduction in the delivery rate specified for a program without a reduction in the total quantity to be delivered.


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Sprague turned himself into a bulletin-board, and read off "notices" of meetings and societies and things till it seemed that the list would stretch out to the crack of doom -- a queer custom which is still kept up in America, even in cities, away here in this age of abundant news- papers.
Then she spoke to him and said, 'The Great Spirit felt sorry for you, because you would not be comforted, so he let me come back to you, but you must not stretch out your hand to touch me till we have seen the rest of our people.
But the sparrow began to flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter
 
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