Synonym: defer, delay, hold over, procrastinate, put off, shelve, stall, suspend, table. Antonym: ancestry. Similar words: poster, post-war, postcard, postmortem, ex post facto, preposterous, outpour, first prize. Meaning: v. hold back to a later time.
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31. I decided I would postpone hostilities for a while.
32. Or keep working past 65 and postpone drawing your pension.
33. She wanted to postpone any thoughts of coming back down to reality for as long as possible.
34. An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1.
35. Mr Bondevik wanted to postpone building gas plants until emissions of environmental-damaging carbon dioxide can be cut.
36. The growth of criticism of Rhee led to speculation that he might seek to postpone the elections scheduled for May 1950.
37. They postpone spending on road repair until the road has to be rebuilt, at three times the cost of simple resurfacing.
38. Such a blueprint could not help but postpone indefinitely important questions facing the integrative bodies already in existence.
39. The justices could postpone weighing the merits of the case, remanding it for trial-court updating of the factual record.
40. I should be grateful if you could postpone making a decision on this licence application until after that date.
41. In fact house prices have reached such proportions in some areas that many engaged couples have had to postpone their weddings.
42. I do not feel able to postpone an order for possession for more than a very short time indeed.
43. Thus, it seems most reasonable to PostPone drug therapy of primary hyperuricemia until clinical manifestations occur.
44. I will postpone consideration of the obligation to obey the law until the last section of this chapter.
45. We had a date for this afternoon but when I heard about Francis it seemed the decent thing to postpone the arrangement.
46. They've agreed to postpone development of a rubbish dump for at least 10 years.
47. The election commission might postpone the election until these questions are clarified.
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49. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin 
50. Replacement markets for many manufactured goods mean that consumers can postpone purchases more easily.
51. It was decided to postpone the survey until the autumn term.
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52. Boro are likely to ask the Football League to postpone next Tuesday's rearranged home game against Barnsley.
53. If the slide continues, mission managers could postpone deployment until Sunday.
54. The overwhelming caseload has made the government reluctant to postpone trials, even though virtually all of the suspects lack defense attorneys.
55. We can not afford to postpone necessary actions, however difficult, in the future.
56. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
57. At the least, officials said, the move will postpone implementation of the program for as long as six months.
58. We shall have to postpone cement, and with it our lighthouse on that windy point.
59. There is only a 10 percent chance poor weather will postpone the launch.
60. Maybe she should postpone the whole crazy idea - or better still, drop it altogether.
More similar words: poster, post-war, postcard, postmortem, ex post facto, preposterous, outpour, first prize, the first person, in the first place, keep on, ponder, opponent, component, respond, sponsor, response, enter upon, respondent, pose, spontaneous, cost, lost, most, host, boost, ghost, impose, compose, suppose.