postpone
41postpone — v.tr. cause or arrange (an event etc.) to take place at a later time. Derivatives: postponable adj. postponement n. postponer n. Etymology: L postponere (as POST , ponere posit place) …
42delay - cancel - postpone — ◊ delay If you delay doing something, you do it at a later time. The government delayed granting passports to them until a week before their departure. Try and persuade them to delay some of the changes. If a plane, train, ship, or bus is delayed …
43Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons — {| class= infobox style= width: 17em; font size: 11px; Infobox Simpsons season {season} episode list header style= font size: 12px; align= center colspan= 2 | Always Postpone Meetings with Time Wasting Morons colspan= 2 style= text align: center; …
44defer, delay, postpone — Each of these words implies keeping or preventing something from happening until a later time: I recommend that we defer (or delay or postpone) this action to our next meeting. To defer is to make a decision to do something later: I shall defer… …
45put something off — POSTPONE, defer, delay, put back, adjourn, hold over, reschedule, shelve, table; informal put on ice, put on the back burner. → put * * * postpone something they can t put off a decision much longer * * * ˌput sthˈoff derived to change sth to a… …
46Postponed — Postpone Post*pone , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postponed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Postponing}.] [L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See {Post }, and {Position}.] 1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause… …
47Postponing — Postpone Post*pone , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postponed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Postponing}.] [L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See {Post }, and {Position}.] 1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause… …
48postponement — postpone UK US /pəʊstˈpəʊn/ verb [T] ► to decide that an event should happen at a later time than originally planned: »The oil giant said it had postponed a decision on whether to go ahead with the deal. »The meeting was postponed for another… …
49postponence — postponeˈment or (rare) postpōˈnence noun • • • Main Entry: ↑postpone …
50defer a payment — postpone a payment to a later date …
