Postpone - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |pəʊˈspəʊn|  American pronunciation of the word postpone
Brit.  |pəʊs(t)ˈpəʊn|  British pronunciation of the word postpone

verb

- hold back to a later time (syn: defer, hold over, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table)
let's postpone the exam

Extra examples

The baseball game was postponed until tomorrow because of rain.

...we'll have to postpone a decision until we have all the information...

The concert has had to be postponed to next week.

The match had to be postponed until next week.

They've decided to postpone having a family for a while.

His trial has been postponed indefinitely (=no one knows when it will happen).

The judge had to postpone some of the cases on the docket.

It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.

It was sensible of her to postpone the trip.

The company has decided to postpone its flotation on the stock market.

Anderson repeated his request that we postpone the meeting.

They sportingly agreed to postpone the race until our boat was repaired.

The meeting was supposed to take place on Tuesday, but we've had to postpone it.

'What if it rains tomorrow?' 'We'll just have to postpone it.'

We'll have to postpone buying a new computer until next year.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: postpone
he/she/it: postpones
present participle: postponing
past tense: postponed
past participle: postponed
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