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- Dictionarypostpone/pəˈspəʊn/
verb
- 1. cause or arrange for (something) to take place at a time later than that first scheduled: "the visit had to be postponed for some time"
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The meaning of POSTPONE is to put off to a later time : defer. How to use postpone in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Postpone.
POSTPONE definition: 1. to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time: 2. to delay…. Learn more.
POSTPONE meaning: 1. to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time: 2. to delay…. Learn more.
If you postpone an event, you delay it or arrange for it to take place at a later time than was originally planned. He decided to postpone the expedition until the following day. [ VERB noun/verb-ing ]
To postpone something is to put it off until later. You can postpone an appointment today and reschedule it for tomorrow. Anything you're putting for is being postponed: people postpone things they don't have time to do or just don't want to do.
Definition of postpone verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you postpone or put off an event, you arrange for it to take place at a later time than was originally planned. Postpone is more formal than put off . The crew did not know that the invasion had been postponed .
postpone. verb. /poʊˈspoʊn/. Verb Forms. to arrange for an event, etc. to take place at a later time or date synonym put somebodyoff postpone something The game has already been postponed three times. postpone something to/until something We'll have to postpone the meeting until next week.
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb postpone, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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