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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61. Judge Mallet wisely decided to postpone his ruling until September 13 in order to give himself time to deliberate on the matter.
62. Could we postpone the meeting until a more convenient time?
63. Additional appeals could postpone Davis' execution for as long as 20 years and cost the taxpayers millions in legal fees.
64. He was allowed to postpone serving the sentence in order to attend his daughter's wedding.
65. True, one can not postpone an operation for acute appendicitis.
66. Alternating child-care responsibility is a far cry from asking a woman to postpone her career to raise her children.
67. Therefore, we will postpone discussion of them until the section on fund accounting.
68. However, it agreed to postpone until 1994 the negotiation of a new agreement between tropical timber producers and consumers.
69. Even during appeals, Simpson can not easily postpone payment to the victims' relatives.
70. He decided to postpone his meditations and take up the subject again later.
71. I suspect that removing the information about ethnic origin would only postpone the discrimination to the interview stage.
72. Companies hit by labour disputes were to be granted emergency loans and allowed to postpone tax repayments for up to nine months.
73. McGee had asked the commission to postpone the appointment until after its ruling.
74. They decided to postpone the wedding until Pam's mother was out of the hospital.
75. Despite this cash crunch, Simpson may yet find a way to at least postpone payment of his debts to the plaintiffs.
76. For example, a federal employee who was thinking of buying a new car is going to postpone that decision.
77. After considerable procrastination, they eventually settle on equivocal courses of action that serve only to postpone the long-dreaded day of judgment.
78. Until now, I have unfalteringly exercised that choice to postpone motherhood.
79. Politicians can exploit a laborious sequence of reiterated doubts to postpone action even in those areas of which they are quite certain.
80. Unilateral respect relationships in adolescence can postpone adaptation to the real world and integration into society.
81. For several years, however, with investment restricted, Boards had in parts of their areas to postpone such work.sentencedict.com
82. Gorbachev's warning to Honecker not to postpone the necessary reforms was a smoke alarm soon drowned by the blaze.
83. The social pressure has led to calls from several leading lawmakers and executives to postpone the introduction of the euro.
84. Steps were also taken to postpone the coronation on 4 May, the day on which Gloucester and the prince entered London.
85. Interfax reported on May 13 that the health unions would postpone strike action until Aug. 1.
86. But Symington and his allies used it as an excuse to further postpone what is inevitable and right.
87. The Government is drawing up plans to postpone the census, which is due to be held on April 29.
88. I think I shall have to postpone our little chat about the job.
89. But under pressure to get Rohr on better financial footing, he agreed to postpone the project.
90. I think we should postpone the outing.
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.