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postpone — verb (T) to change an event, action etc to a later time or date: The match had to be postponed. | postpone sth until: We re postponing our holiday until we have some more money. | postpone doing sth: Gail and Jim have decided to postpone having a … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
postpone — post|pone [pəusˈpəun US pousˈpoun] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: postponere, from ponere; POSITION1] to change the date or time of a planned event or action to a later one = ↑put back ≠ ↑bring forward ▪ The match had to be postponed… … Dictionary of contemporary English
postpone — To put off; defer; delay; continue; adjourn; as when a hearing is postponed. Also to place after; to set below something else; as when an earlier lien is for some reason postponed to a later lien. The term carries with it the idea of deferring… … Black's law dictionary
delay - 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 … Useful english dictionary
dillydally — verb postpone doing what one should be doing He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days • Syn: ↑procrastinate, ↑stall, ↑drag one s feet, ↑drag one s heels, ↑shillyshally, ↑dilly dally … Useful english dictionary
drag one's feet — verb postpone doing what one should be doing (Freq. 2) He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days • Syn: ↑procrastinate, ↑stall, ↑drag one s heels, ↑shillyshally, ↑dilly dally, ↑dillydally … Useful english dictionary
drag one's heels — verb postpone doing what one should be doing He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days • Syn: ↑procrastinate, ↑stall, ↑drag one s feet, ↑shillyshally, ↑dilly dally, ↑dillydally • … Useful english dictionary
shillyshally — I noun the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time • Syn: ↑procrastination, ↑cunctation • Derivationally related forms: ↑procrastinate (for: ↑procrastination) … Useful english dictionary
procrastinate — , prevaricate The first means to postpone doing; the second means to be untruthful … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
put 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… … Useful english dictionary
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
