[pohst-pohz] 
| to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out.” |
| post·pose (pōst-pōz') v. post·posed, post·pos·ing, post·pos·es v. tr. To place (a word or phrasal constituent) after other constituents in a sentence, as the direct object noun phrase all the interesting places he had visited in the sentence He described to them all the interesting places he had visited. v. intr. To become postposed. [Back-formation from postposition.] |
