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postpone English

Meaning postpone meaning

What does postpone mean?
Definitions in simple English

postpone Verb

— When you postpone something, it means to cancel a plan or event with the intention of rescheduling at a later date. She will postpone the picnic if weather reports indicate rain. The exams were postponed until next week because of the weather.

postpone

— verb hold back to a later time let's postpone the exam

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postpone English » English

delay put off defer adjourn procrastinate suspend shelve table hold over stay set back retard prorogue extend remit respite prolong stop slow down put over put back put aside postponement move ignore hinder halt dismiss cancel call off yield walk back waive vary throw over throw away tarry suspend operations step back stave off stall stagger spread shove shift set send on send back sack retrogress

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Postpone

Conjugation postpone conjugation

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Simple sentences

They were compelled to postpone their departure.
We should probably postpone the competition.
We had to postpone the gathering because of rain.
I will postpone my trip to Scotland until it is warmer.
We have to postpone our departure.
We are left with having to postpone our departure.
I'll postpone my trip to Scotland until it's warmer.
We had to postpone the meeting due to the traffic accident.
We can't postpone the meeting.
I think we need to postpone the meeting.
I had to postpone my appointment.
Let's postpone until next week.
Tom and Mary agreed to postpone the party for a week.
Tom decided to postpone the meeting.
Tom decided to postpone the decision.
I'd like you to postpone your trip.

Movie subtitles

So I'm afraid we'll have to postpone our trip abroad this year.
Well, let's postpone it.
Otherwise, I'm afraid we'll have to postpone our marriage a long while.
Do you think you can postpone it?
Postpone the Far East conference.
We'll have to postpone that stuffing match, but it'll be double tomorrow!
We can't postpone this meeting.
Postpone it until next session of Congress.
Why don't you postpone the wedding?
It'd postpone it.
Oh, Charlotte dear, I beg you! Postpone the marriage for a time.
I could easily postpone my sailing for a week.
You keep postponing that moment and you can't postpone it forever.
Let's postpone Paris.
I'm sorry, ladies, we'll have to postpone the wedding for a few days.
And I'll postpone the whole thing until tomorrow night.
We'll postpone any discussion until after dinner.
Will it be necessary to postpone the execution?
Why not postpone the signing until then?
Can you postpone them?
Postpone the wedding.
It'd postpone it. It would not.
I can easily postpone my sailing for a week.
We'll wait. we'll postpone.
Why didn't you postpone the launch?
If you'll do like I'll tell you, we'll make the pinch and you can postpone that trip to Omaha.
We'll have to postpone.
I'm afraid we'll have to postpone the ceremony.

News and current affairs

We cannot postpone the pain of adjustment forever by printing money.
Most commentators appear to think that Bush's latest prescription - a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad - will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.
That a small centrist party may now get the courts to postpone the election merely adds to the usual confusion.
If it is generally thought that oil prices will be higher in the future, owners of oil reserves will tend to postpone costly investments in exploration and expansion of production capacity, and they may pump oil at below capacity.
Some people want to spend a lot now on education, or psychotherapy, or whatever else is important to them now, and so want to postpone saving until later.
Moreover, it is relatively easy to postpone lowering oil consumption.
It is not an easy choice, but it is one that Iran's leaders cannot postpone for much longer.
Is it really better to postpone global warming by seven hours?
With 60 million children still out of school, the international community should not simply postpone the same universal-education target until 2030.
The longer that European authorities postpone the introduction of Eurobonds, an effective banking and fiscal union, and lender-of-last-resort status for the ECB, the longer the crisis will last.
In fact, social democrats were regarded as more dangerous than hard-line conservatives, because their moderate left-wing talk only served to postpone the revolution.
To be sure, an unexpected slowdown in economic activity or a strong rise in the value of the euro could postpone the inevitable rate hike.
Humanity has faced threats to its existence and the health of the planet before, yet we have managed to avoid the apocalypse, or at least postpone it, through ingenuity and invention.
Too many Europeans are collecting too many benefits, but so far governments have mostly ducked the issue, taking on massive debt in order to postpone the reckoning.
Having dithered and bickered for too long, the US Congress will find it increasingly difficult to postpone action on these challenges.
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial markets might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
The fundamental problem is that while some people postpone saving for sensible reasons, and will resume saving later, many others fail to save for no good reason, and are unlikely to make up for it later.
The difficulty of working through the full economic implications is precisely what discourages consumers from making purchases and causes firms to postpone investment.
Fifth, external financial assistance cannot postpone the day of reckoning forever.
That may seem unlikely - one would think that a bad economic outlook would incline governments to postpone, rather than accelerate, austerity measures.
And Kosovo's Albanian population is clamoring for independence, while Serbia tries to postpone a decision by blocking action in the Security Council.
Moreover, the risk of such a policy mistake is high, because the political economy of countries like the US may lead officials to postpone tough choices about unsustainable fiscal deficits.
Indeed, refusal to support Georgia's struggling democracy would most likely postpone democratic progress in Ukraine, Belarus, even in Russia itself.
The treaty's effect on temperature would be immeasurable by mid-century and only postpone warming by five years in 2100.

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