Definition: 1. Hold back to a later time. 2. To arrange for an event, etc. to take place at a later time or date.
Use 'postpone' in a sentence:
1. The ball game was postponed because of rain.
2. The game has already been postponed three times.
3. You should postpone making a decision until you have more information.
4. Postpone the pain, postpone the recovery.
5. Jeff: We had to postpone it.
6. There was an audible sigh of relief in Washington when the foreign ministers decided to postpone the meeting.
7. Facing a national blood shortage, physicians in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore and Washington moved to postpone nonemergency surgeries.
8. We gotta postpone the camping trip.
9. The trial was postponed indefinitely.
10. It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.
11. I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.
12. There are rumblings that the election may have to be postponed.
13. Elections were postponed the day before polling was due to take place.
14. He said it was just not permissible to postpone the main issue by allowing business to carry on as usual.
15. Since he is eight years old, his education must be no longer postponed.
16. Postpone the New Year detox.
17. The game was postponed because of rain.
18. I? D like to postpone that discussion until later.
19. He decided to postpone the expedition until the following day.
20. The flight was postponed on account of bad weather.
21. I, for one, would prefer to postpone the meeting.
22. I am calling to postpone my appointment.
23. The match was postponed on account of the weather.
24. I had to postpone ideas of a career and stay at home.
25. He did the worst thing he could: postpone the next chariot race.
26. Ministers are using delaying tactics to postpone the report yet again.
27. So why did E.ON postpone its Kingsnorth plan?
28. Nokia has postponed the release of its new product.
29. Every generation develops these habits at a certain age, but Millennials seem to be extending this phase of life as they postpone marriage.
30. I? D like to postpone that decision until later.
31. We'll have to postpone the meeting until next week.
32. They planned to postpone their trip until the spring.
33. He vowed not to postpone unpleasant decisions.
34. The sports meeting was supposed to take place on Tuesday, but we've had to postpone it because of the weather.
35. The only practicable alternative is to postpone the meeting.
36. It was an unpopular decision to postpone building the new hospital.
37. In case of rain the mass meeting will be postponed till the first fine day.
38. He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
39. They just postpone them.
40. Data show that economic downturns tend to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days ahead.
41. Lacking money, they had to postpone their plan.
42. I'm afraid the meeting will be postponed.
43. If nobody objects, we'll postpone the meeting till next week.
44. The match has been postponed to a later date.
45. Vietnam made an official request that the meeting be postponed.
46. We may reasonably conclude that the meeting has been postponed.
47. It rained and therefore the football match was postponed.