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From Latin postpōnō (“I put after; I postpone”) from post (“after”) + pōnō (“I put; I place”), compare forestall.
- (General American) IPA(key): /poʊstˈpoʊn/
- Rhymes: -əʊn
postpone (third-person singular simple present postpones, present participle postponing, simple past and past participle postponed)
- To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
- Synonyms: defer, delay, forestay, hold off, procrastinate, put off, put on ice, stay, suspend, posticipate
- Antonyms: advance, hasten, prepone (India), antedate, bring forward, expedite
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“ […] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances – in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
- (obsolete) To place after in order; to deem less important.
1687, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 3rd edition, page 161:
Why should the See of Antioch, that most ancient and truly Apostolical Church, where the Christian name began […] be postponed to Alexandria?
- postponement
- postponence (obsolete)
- postponer
to delay or put off an event
- Arabic: أَجَّلَ (ar) (ʔajjala)
- Armenian: հետաձգել (hy) (hetajgel)
- Azerbaijani: təxirə salmaq (az)
- Bulgarian: отлагам (bg) (otlagam), отсрочвам (bg) (otsročvam)
- Catalan: posposar (ca), ajornar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: odložit (cs) pf, odročit (cs) pf
- Danish: udsætte (da), udskyde
- Dutch: uitstellen (nl), verschuiven (nl), achterstellen (nl), opschorten (nl)
- Esperanto: prokrasti
- Estonian: edasi lükkama
- Finnish: siirtää myöhemmäksi, lykätä (fi), myöhäistää (fi)
- French: repousser (fr), remettre (fr), reporter (fr), différer (fr) (decision), postposer (fr) (Belgium)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: verschieben (de), aufschieben (de), zurückstellen (de)
- Greek: αναβάλλω (el) (anavállo), ετεροχρονίζω (el) (eterochronízo)
- Ancient: ἀναβάλλω (anabállō)
- Hebrew: דחה (he) (dakhá)
- Hindi: टालना (hi) (ṭālnā)
- Hungarian: elhalaszt (hu), elnapol (hu), későbbre halaszt
- Icelandic: fresta
- Ido: ajornar (io)
- Indonesian: menunda (id)
- Italian: rimandare (it)
- Japanese: 延期する (ja) (えんきする, enki suru)
- Khmer: បង្អែរបង្អង់ (bɑŋ’ae-bɑŋ’ɑŋ), បង្ខន (km) (bɑŋkʰɑɑn)
- Korean: 연기하다 (ko) (yeon'gi-hada)
- Lithuanian: atidėlioti
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Polish: odroczyć (pl) pf, odraczać (pl) impf, odłożyć (pl) pf, odkładać (pl) impf, przełożyć (na inny termin)
- Portuguese: postergar (pt), adiar (pt)
- Romanian: amâna (ro)
- Russian: откла́дывать (ru) impf (otkládyvatʹ), отложи́ть (ru) pf (otložítʹ), отсро́чивать (ru) impf (otsróčivatʹ), отсро́чить (ru) pf (otsróčitʹ)
- Spanish: aplazar (es), postergar (es), atrasar (es), perecear (es), posponer (es)
- Swedish: uppskjuta (sv), senarelägga (sv), skjuta upp (sv)
- Telugu: వాయిదావేయు (te) (vāyidāvēyu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: ertelemek (tr)
- Ukrainian: відклада́ти impf (vidkladáty), відкла́сти pf (vidklásty), відстро́чувати impf (vidstróčuvaty), відстро́чити pf (vidstróčyty), відтерміно́вувати impf (vidterminóvuvaty), відтермінува́ти pf (vidterminuváty)
- Venetian: remandar
- Vietnamese: hoãn (vi)
- Welsh: gohirio (cy)
- Yiddish: אָפּלייגן (opleygn)
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