verb
definition
To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
synonyms
Examples of postpone in a Sentence
She released her breath, satisfied on more than one level, to postpone her return to the human world.
The country was at war, and it seemed best to postpone the new constitution until peace should be concluded.
Especially let the unmarried postpone it.
President Lincoln executed the draft with all possible justice and forbearance, but refused every importunity to postpone it.
On the day before that fixed for the execution Lord Elgin, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, intervened and directed the governor to postpone the execution of the sentence.
It was determined nevertheless to postpone action; however, on the 29th of December, Jameson started, and the news of his having done so reached Johannesburg from outside sources.
This divergence of views manifested itself on Christmas Day 1895, and although, under pressure, Rhodes did not insist on the British flag, it was determined to postpone the rising.
The PAC may be expected to postpone a hearing if the relevant Accounting Officer is temporarily indisposed.
Mahayana Buddhists also honor Bodhisattvas who are those who postpone reaching nirvana in order to teach more people the dharma.
If the doctors did not keep me here at the spas I should be back in Russia, but as it is I have to postpone my return for three months.
Napoleon wished to postpone the rupture for fully eighteen months, as is shown by his secret instructions to Decaen.
When, in December 1674, a Swedish army invaded Prussian Pomerania, Denmark was bound to intervene as a belligerent, but Griffenfeldt endeavoured to postpone this intervention as long as possible; and Sweden's anxiety to avoid hostilities with her southern neighbour materially assisted him to postpone the evil day.
Henry made a vain effort to prevent, or to postpone, the outbreak of hostilities; but urged on by his French ally and his queen, James declared for war, in spite of the counsels of some of his advisers, and (it is said) of the warning of an apparition.
On the first resolution only there was a definite vote; on the 19th of June it was voted to postpone the consideration of this resolution and to report the resolutions (the Virginia plan) formerly agreed upon by the committee of the whole.
Spring cleaning Some basic housekeeping might improve your computer's performance enough to postpone the ' upgrade or replace ' decision altogether.
At the same time, according to Catholic teaching, such Indulgence was not a mere permission to omit or postpone payment, but was in fact a discharge from the debt of temporal punishment which the sinner owed.
Some drugs may postpone the need for surgery by inhibiting the production of CSF.
The decision to postpone the referendum on the euro will also mean that the Convention gets an absolutely clear run in the next year.
The other is the loss in pension wealth by those who postpone retirement and thus receive less for any given life expectancy.
Maine prepared television advertisements urging teenagers to postpone sexual activity and to achieve self sufficiency before engaging in sex.
He offered to postpone the receipt of the money if the Crusaders would reduce Zara and Dalmatia for the republic. These terms were accepted.
It helped to postpone secession and Civil War for a decade, during which time the North-West was growing more wealthy and more populous, and was being brought into closer relations with the North-East.
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Tidings of a new Mahdist incursion into Abyssinian territory reaching the negus induced him to postpone the settlement of his quarrel with Menelek until the dervishes had been chastised.
She had a new constitution drawn up, practically providing for an absolute monarchy, and disfranchising a large class of citizens who had voted since 1887; this constitution (drawn up, so the royal party declared, in reply to a petition signed by thousands of natives) she undertook to force on the country after proroguing the legislature on the 14th of January 1893, but her ministers shrank from the responsibility of so revolutionary an act, and with difficulty prevailed upon her to postpone the execution of her design.
She released her breath, satisfied on more than one level to postpone her return to the human world.
Any team wishing to postpone or rearrange a fixture must give the opposing team Captain 96 hours notice prior to the original fixture date.
Even if this is your first scrapbook, Diana believes there's no reason to postpone creating a memory album for your child.
Even though you're busy ordering invitations, choosing a wedding dress, and finding a suitable location for your wedding reception, it's a bad idea to postpone hiring your limo service.
There are many details to consider as you're planning your wedding, but it's not a good idea to postpone hiring your Orlando limousine service.
In some cases, it may be advisable to discard plans for an addition, or at least postpone them.
Trip cancellation covers emergencies, illness and weather related occurrences that postpone your trip.
Vallandigham in May, and, although he responded immediately to the call for militia in June, he thought the Conscription Act unnecessary and unconstitutional and urged the president to postpone the draft until its legality could be tested.
But from the beginning of that year, a period of extreme commercial and financial depression set in, and the treasury had to postpone all recourse to loans for whatever purpose, so that railway progress was completely checked in the field alike of the original and the acquired state lines.
The general effect of the recommenda g tions already made would be to begin the study of foreign languages with French, and to postpone the study of Latin to the age of twelve and that of Greek to the age of thirteen.
President Jackson now urged Michigan to discontinue interfering with the re-marking of the Harris line, and requested Ohio to postpone putting into effect the Act of February 1835; but as petty outbreaks continued throughout the summer and an Ohio judge and court officers at Toledo were arrested in September, he peremptorily removed Governor Mason from office.
Women who have had the vaccine should postpone pregnancy for three months after being vaccinated.
The heavy rain, which had delayed the commencement of the action, had swollen the Bistritz so as to check their advance and thus postpone the decision, whilst the mist and driving rain hid the approaching troops from the Austrian gunners, whose shells burst almost harmlessly on the sodden ground.
Indeed the king's horror of Jacobinism was morbid in its intensity, and drove him to adopt all sorts of reactionary measures and to postpone his coronation for some years, so as to avoid calling together a diet; but the disorder of the finances, caused partly by the continental war and partly by the almost total failure of the crops in 1798 and 1799, compelled him to summon the estates to Norrkoping in March 1800, and on the 3rd of April Gustavus was crowned.
In 1860 he went to Sicily on a mission to reconcile the policy of Cavour (who desired the immediate incorporation of the island in the kingdom of Italy) with that of Garibaldi, who wished to postpone the Sicilian plebiscite until after the liberation of Naples and Rome.
Obstruction was Fersen's chief weapon, and he continued to postpone the granting of subsidies by the house of nobles for some weeks.
While he had to fulfill the debt past-Death incurred, Gabriel at least might postpone it until he had time to warn Rhyn.
Also to refuse or cancel any entries, to postpone or abandon the Show and relax conditions as the Society may deem expedient.
Whether IFN-alpha is able to postpone marrow fibrosis if administered in early disease stages remains to be determined in future clinical trials.
The tsar, however, was determined to save Prussia if he could; and Napoleon after the first disasters in Spain saw it to be impossible to uproot the Hohenzollerns; while it was clearly to his interest to postpone the partition of Turkey until he had conquered Spain and Sicily.
If you need to temporarily postpone your studies to pursue other interests, taking a class online makes it easy to pick up where you left off.
Postpone your first RMD until April 1 of the next year; however, you'll have to make a second withdrawal from that IRA by Dec. 31 of the next year.
Learn to distinguish from wants and needs, then postpone all nonessential expenditures for as long as possible.
If motivation is a problem and you find yourself coming up with excuses to postpone workouts, having someone waiting at the gym counter may be just the arm-twisting you need.
During the negotiations which preceded the Peloponnesian War he did his best to prevent, or at least xo postpone, the inevitable struggle, but was overruled by the war party.