ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsPpostpone
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postpone
Meaning: to delay an event to a later time
postpone in a sentence
How postpone is used in real sentences:
Heavy snow forced the school to postpone the science fair until next Friday.
Worried that too few guests had confirmed, the organizers chose to postpone the charity concert to a warmer weekend in the spring.
“The ailment was mild, but Maya feared Coach Bell might postpone Tuesday's hardest practice until Friday.”
— from the passage Ten Tests Ahead
Synonyms for postpone
Other words for postpone — delay, reschedule and defer — carry the same meaning.
- delay
- reschedule
- defer
Antonyms of postpone
Words that mean the opposite of postpone:
- expedite
- advance
Where it comes from
From Latin post 'after' plus ponere 'to place'
Word parts
- post — after
postpone: post- (after) + pone (put) - pon/pos — place, put
postpone: post- (after) + pon (place)
Memory hook
POST (after) — to postpone is to place something AFTER its original time.