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Postpone Common

Origin: Latin prefix post-

Postpone has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

hold back to a later time

"let's postpone the exam"

2

To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

"We had to postpone our dinner reservation because the restaurant was completely full that night."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
delay
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
call hold suspend probate reprieve
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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