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postpone
[ pohst-pohn, pohs- ]
verb (used with object)
- to put off to a later time; defer:
He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- to place after in order of importance or estimation; subordinate:
to postpone private ambitions to the public welfare.
postpone
/ pəˈspəʊn; pəʊstˈpəʊn /
verb
- to put off or delay until a future time
- to put behind in order of importance; defer
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Derived Forms
- postˈponer, noun
- postˈponement, noun
- postˈponable, adjective
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Other Words From
- post·pon·a·ble adjective
- post·pone·ment noun
- post·pon·er noun
- non·post·pon·a·ble adjective
- re·post·pone verb (used with object) repostponed repostponing
- un·post·pon·a·ble adjective
- un·post·poned adjective
- well-post·poned adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of postpone1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
His first prescription when I saw him was to have the CAT scan test that I had been forced to postpone for a month and a half.
At this point, the photographer says, he decided that too many people knew about his trip and so he decided to postpone it.
Others postpone motherhood until they are financially stable.
The prerequisite for this is for the U.S. to postpone current efforts for some kind of political transition among Syrians.
We still need to see if that will happen, or if we need to postpone it.
I may be tempted to postpone my retirement, and for a while longer to continue to gather the golden harvest that ripens round me.
Better postpone your solace to more fitting time and place—the close of day and your own veranda.
If you love tea, postpone pipe till after it; no man can enjoy fine tea who has smoked.
The length of several of the communications in our present Number compels us to postpone this week our Notes on Books, &c.
If Arsenio had a mind to reform, let him postpone that reformation until Garnache should have done with him.
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