cajonear
Spanish, verb/kaxoneˈaɾ/
cajonear is spelled C-A-J-O-N-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Spanish, the 249,533rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cajonear is a Spanish verb meaning “to shelve (postpone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Demorar la resolución de un trámite administrativo o un proceso judicial”.
What does cajonear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shelve (postpone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Demorar la resolución de un trámite administrativo o un proceso judicial. 2. Cerrar violentamente una puerta. 3. Dicho de un cajero: robar todo o parte del dinero recaudado en la caja.
verb: 1. Tocar el cajón (instrumento musical). 2. Dicho de una compañía: experimentar un incremento abrupto en el valor de sus acciones.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cajonear
- cajoneo first-person present singular
- cajoneé first-person preterite singular
- cajoneado participle past
- cajoneando gerund
- cajoneada feminine participle past
- cajoneados masculine participle past
- cajoneadas feminine participle past
- cajoneas indicative informal present
- cajoneás indicative informal present
- cajonea indicative present singular
- cajoneamos first-person indicative plural
- cajoneáis indicative plural present
- cajonean indicative plural present
- cajoneaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cajoneabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cajoneábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cajoneabais imperfect indicative plural
- cajoneaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cajonear?
- /kaxoneˈaɾ/
- [ka.xo.neˈaɾ]
- [kaxoneˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cajonear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cajonear in Spanish?
cajonear appears about once in every 50 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).