slittare

to slip, to slide

verb zleet-TAH-reh Rare

Also means

to be postponed

Usage Note

Slittare uses essere as its auxiliary when intransitive: la riunione è slittata ('the meeting has been pushed back'). In journalistic Italian it very commonly means a deadline or event has been delayed — la votazione è slittata di una settimana ('the vote slipped by a week').

Examples

"La riunione è slittata a giovedì."

Natural Translation

The meeting has been pushed back to Thursday.

Literal Translation

The meeting is slid to Thursday.

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