The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postpone \Post*pone"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postponed; p. pr. & vb. n. Postponing.] [L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See Post-, and Position.]
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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.
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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.
--Locke.Syn: To adjourn; defer; delay; procrastinate.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of postpone English)
Usage examples of "postponing".
The kindest thing now would be to let her sleep, even though it meant postponing that talk once again.
It was a moment she had been postponing, because she dreaded looking at herself this morning, afraid the night's sensuality would show on her face.
It was irritating to him that he couldn't affect the weather somehow, either postponing the storm or sending it speeding off, so one of his deputies could risk getting upriver to him.