Crossword clues for postponement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postponement \Post*pone"ment\, n.
The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a
future time; a temporary delay.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1770, from postpone + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Postponement is a business strategy that maximizes possible benefit and minimizes risk by delaying further investment into a product or service until the last possible moment. An example of this strategy is Dell Computers' build-to-order online store. Among the earliest reference to the concept was in a paper by Zinn and Bowersox in the Journal of Business Logistics. They highlighted five types: Labelling, Packaging, Assembly, Manufacturing and Time postponements.
A successful example of postponement – delayed differentiation – is the use of “vanilla boxes.” Semi-finished computers are stored in advance of seeing the actual demand for the finished products. Upon seeing the demand, thus with no residual uncertainty – these “vanilla boxes” are finished by adding (or removing) components. The three key interrelated decisions are: (a) how many different types of vanilla boxes to stock, (b) in what quantities, and (c) how to finish to meet the order most effectively.
Usage examples of "postponement".
Writing of the Probate and Divorce Court reminds me of a curious application for the postponement of a trial made by George Brown, who was as good a humorist as he was a lawyer.
Colchester molasses famine, and the consequent postponement of their Thanksgiving, naturally spread throughout all the surrounding towns.
Sir William concluded with a very earnest appeal to Lord George Bentinck and his friends, who might at no very distant period have the government of Ireland entrusted to them, not, for the sake of a momentary postponement of the Corn Bill, to place themselves, by voting for this measure of coercion, in collision with the Irish nation.
The First Eldership War of a thousand cyclics ago had been sparked by that reluctance: the common Zhirrzh demanding the same right to this postponement of death that their clan and family leaders were already enjoying.
Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it does not touch her looks.
Doctor Hassid has made it clear that any further postponement would mean their withdrawal.
Every resource do you think they give a shit if they win it or lose it they just want to keep things going, adjournments postponements appeals they charge the estate every time they pick up the fucking telephone they're talking to each other, like they're all sitting in each other's laps picking each other's noses two hundred dollars an hour every one of them Bibb, they're talking to each other.
It's all my fault, she thought, trying to ease her conscience by reminding herself of all the glum NASA press conferences of the past year—the space station setbacks, the postponement of the X-33, all the failed Mars probes, continuous budget bailouts.
But administrative confusion in the Navy libraries, which had custody of the codebooks, plus difficulties in physically distributing the books by destroyer and airplane to moving ships and widely dispersed installations, forced a postponement to May 1.
Waiting simply an eternity in this ghastly room filled with plastic coffee cups and teeming ashtrays and the Daily News all over the floor when they told us the lawyer for Mummy's estate got up and claimed this loathsome little priest who's a witness or something was unavoidably detained on official diocesian business doing God knows how many widows and orphans out of their last crust, I mean of course those weren't his exact words but they got a postponement and it suddenly seemed the perfect chance for this visit I've promised and here we are!
A postponement of the Abitur would have meant the end of my career before it had begun.
George Amberson Minafer had not yet got his come-upance, a postponement still irritating.
Despite their postponement last night, everything was now going easy as pie.
Rarely a blizzard would cause postponement, but if the weather behaved itself, the goblins would come to the Timber Meet without fail.