postpones

VERB

put off till later time

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adjourn defer delay hold up shelve suspend

STRONG

pigeonhole prorogue table

WEAK

cool it give a rain check hang fire hold off hold over lay over put back put on back burner put on hold

Antonyms

STRONGEST

advance continue expedite forward further hasten hurry

WEAK

carry out do maintain persevere

Example Sentences

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The plan also postpones more complex negotiations over its nuclear programme, a major sticking point for Trump.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Gen. Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac, “but if the couchant lion postpones his spring too long, people will begin wondering whether he is not a stuffed specimen after all.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The L.A. school board approved an $18.8 billion budget that postpones layoffs for a year and does not cut services to students.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

It postpones certain tax-filing deadlines for Americans and their spouses who are wrongfully detained or held hostage abroad.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024

It is not often that a man postpones to his seventy-sixth year, and then successfully executes, the crowning task of his life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various