postpone

Meanings

• Verb

  Delay or put off an action or event until a later time.

  - "I need to postpone our meeting until next week."
  - "Can we postpone the party until the weekend?"

• Verb

  Keep or maintain in a suspended state.

  - "The city council has postponed the decision on the new zoning laws."
  - "The doctor postponed the diagnosis until further tests could be done."

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Pronunciation

1. /poʊstˈpoʊn/
   
   
   
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Antonyms

advance , antedate , bring forward , expedite , hasten , prepone (India)

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Synonyms

defer , delay , forestay , posticipate , procrastinate , put off , put on ice , stay , suspend

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with postpone
gone , mone , alone , mown

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Variants

List of all variants of postpone that leads to same result
postponable , postpone , postponed , postponement , postponements , postponer , postponers , postpones , postponing

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Originally meant 'to put behind,' from Old French posponner, from poiser 'to put' + der 'behind'.

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Trivia

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1. Postponing a wedding is considered bad luck in some cultures.

2. The longest postponed Olympic Games were the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were originally scheduled for Tokyo, Japan, but were postponed due to World War II and eventually held in 1964.

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Related Concepts

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1. defer: Synonym for postpone, meaning to delay or put off until a later time.

2. procrastinate: To postpone or delay unnecessarily, often due to lack of motivation or fear of failure.

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Culture

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Postponing is a common occurrence in various aspects of life, from personal commitments to business and politics. In literature, the theme of postponing or delaying can be found in works such as James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'.

How to Memorize "postpone"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a clock being turned back, symbolizing the delay or postponement of an event.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the image of a paused game or a suspended animation.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each definition: 'Put Off Something Now Easy' for 'Delay' and 'Put Off Something Now Easy' for 'Suspended'.

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