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postpone

poʊstˈpoʊn
WordNet
Magdalena Moons begs her fiancé Francisco Valdez to postpone the storming of Leiden one more night, 1574: scene from the Eighty Years' War
Magdalena Moons begs her fiancé Francisco Valdez to postpone the storming of Leiden one more night, 1574: scene from the Eighty Years' War
Scene from the Eighty Years' War, 1574: Magdalena Moons begs her fiancé Francisco Valdez to postpone the storming of Leiden for another night, during which the wind changed, the land flooded and the city saved. The Spanish officer sits in his tent, with his left hand on his sword. His wife is sitting next to him and pointing out. Right parts of armor.
  1. (v) postpone
    hold back to a later time "let's postpone the exam"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Postpone
    To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. "His praise postponed , and never to be paid."
  2. Postpone
    To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance. "All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. postpone
    To put off; defer to a future or later time; delay.
  2. postpone
    To set below (something else) in value or importance; rate as less important or inferior.
  3. postpone
    Synonyms To adjourn, procrastinate, stave off.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Postpone
    pōst-pōn′ to put off to a future time: to defer: to delay: to subordinate
Quotations
William James
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
William James
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.
David J. Schwartz
Henry Miller
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Henry Miller
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. postponere, postpositum,; post, after + ponere, to place, put. See Post-, and Position

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. postponĕre, -positumpost, after, ponĕre, to put.

Usage in the news

That's because a new study of real estate agents found that one-third of home-purchase transactions in September, October and November were postponed or went south. sbtradio.com

View full size The Saginaw News File Saginaw Spirit co-owner Craig Goslin believes the NHL lockout has to end soon or the Winter Classic outdoor OHL game between the Spirit and Windsor is in danger of being postponed. mlive.com

Usher postpones European tour to. xyz.com

Michael O?Reilly has been postponed from June 23 to June 30 for unforeseen reasons, Liturgy Coordinator Joy Robles told parishioners Sunday. thepresstribune.com

If they happen, games are postponed or canceled. jsonline.com

The Nationals-Cardinals game scheduled for Tuesday night was postponed and will be more. ashingtontimes.com

Plumtree apartment zoning hearing postponed. baltimoresun.com

A trial has been postponed for a man charged with shooting at three black men in Algiers Point who were trying to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in what prosecutors call a racially motivated attack. nola.com

A court hearing that could approve the transformation of 14 area chicken joints from KFCs into Popeyes has been postponed until Wednesday. startribune.com

The State Department of Education's release of the A-F School Report Cards for all Oklahoma schools has been postponed. oodwardnews.net

Power failure postpones Border Patrol testimony for fatal wreck. team4news.com

A power failure has postponed Border Patrol agents from testifying a teen smuggler accused of killing nine illegal immigrants during a chase. team4news.com

0A power failure has postponed Border Patrol agents from testifying a teen smuggler accused of killing nine illegal immigrants during a chase. team4news.com

Update (10:30 a.m.) – The case was postponed until 1:30 p.m. kmzu.com

Nets-Knicks opener in Brooklyn postponed. shorepublishing.com

Usage in scientific papers

The proof of Theorem 7 depends on three lemmas, whose proofs we will postpone until after the proof of the theorem.
On the existence of absolutely simple abelian varieties of a given dimension over an arbitrary field

We postpone the proof of this Proposition to the end of the next section and proceed with the proof of Theorem 1.
No more than three favourite sites for simple random walk

We postpone the proof of this lemma to § 3, and proceed to the more interesting part of the proof.
On the critical exponents of random k-SAT

The study of the detailed behaviour of this walk is postponed in a subsequent publication.
Random walks on randomly oriented lattices

This study is postponed to a subsequent paper.
Random walks in random environment on trees and multiplicative chaos

Usage in literature

Everything that could be postponed was postponed. "Captain Jinks, Hero" by Ernest Crosby

He would occasionally postpone his work to pleasure. "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope

That a postponement of marriage provides the opportunity for better sexual selection. "Applied Eugenics" by Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

How he now wished he had not postponed his departure for Bath! "Henrietta Temple A Love Story" by Benjamin Disraeli

There was no time to be lost, for it was growing late, and a postponement, as far as Archie was concerned, seemed inevitable. "The Ordeal" by Charles Egbert Craddock

But the Peers declined to pass it, and it was postponed. "The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)" by Queen Victoria

Indeed, I ought not to have postponed it for so long. "Mary Gray" by Katharine Tynan

Having nobly postponed dinner for purely artistic reasons, they were now decidedly hungry. "Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer" by Jessie Graham Flower

Postponement he might look forward to, but no final stay of judgment! "The Eagle of the Empire" by Cyrus Townsend Brady

The case for postponement is just as strong when one or both are under-graduates in college, with no professional training planned. "The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book" by Various

Usage in poetry
Postpone you can not, nor advance
Success or failure that's to be;
All fortune, being born of chance,
Is bastard-child to destiny.
Shou'd he from penitence thy soul restrain,
'Till death, and make thee each good work postpone:
He hinders thee God's mercy to obtain,
Until perhaps the time of mercy's gone.
He turned to the other grave Justice of Peace,
And whispered, ‘You can’t always trust the police;
‘I’ll visit the premises during the day,
‘And see for myself,’ said O’Hara, Jay Pay.
(Case postponed.)
There was quite a new expression on his lemon-coloured face,
And the unexpected odour won him temporary grace,
For we tacitly postponed the sacking-point till by-and-by,
And we tacitly said nothing save the one word, "rabbit pie!"
Feeling lonely-like, Magee took on a local star named Bent,
And four others started fighting to avoid an argument:
So Simonsen postponed the game, for fear some slight mishap
Might disturb the pleasant feeling then prevailing at The Gap.