verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
postpone a decision (= not make a decision until later )
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The government has postponed its decision about when to hold the election.
postpone a match (= arrange for it to happen at a later time )
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Our first match was postponed because of bad weather.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
indefinitely
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Such a blueprint could not help but postpone indefinitely important questions facing the integrative bodies already in existence.
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A referendum to determine the future of the island has been postponed indefinitely .
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Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely .
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However, the trial has been postponed indefinitely .
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On Dec. 13 Landsbergis had announced that a further round of preliminary consultations had been postponed indefinitely by the Soviet side.
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No doubt this explains why elections there have been postponed indefinitely .
■ NOUN
action
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Interfax reported on May 13 that the health unions would postpone strike action until Aug. 1.
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Politicians can exploit a laborious sequence of reiterated doubts to postpone action even in those areas of which they are quite certain.
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We can not afford to postpone necessary actions , however difficult, in the future.
day
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Against Gorbachev's wishes a vote on the issue had to be postponed until the following day .
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Action was postponed until another day .
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The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days .
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After considerable procrastination, they eventually settle on equivocal courses of action that serve only to postpone the long-dreaded day of judgment.
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The temperature then was 41 after the game was postponed the previous day because of freezing rain and snow.
decision
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Further decisions are evidently being postponed until an answer has been received from Rome.
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We can stay much as we are, in the same old muddle, with difficult decisions postponed .
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The ruling executive wanted a decision postponed to assess a review of benefits and taxation.
election
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Tripoli postponed the elections until February.
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The election commission might postpone the election until these questions are clarified.
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But perhaps the changes were better postponed until after the election .
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The growth of criticism of Rhee led to speculation that he might seek to postpone the elections scheduled for May 1950.
government
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An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1.
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The overwhelming caseload has made the government reluctant to postpone trials, even though virtually all of the suspects lack defense attorneys.
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It was expected that some of the larger projects approved by the Gandhi government would be postponed .
month
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Ershad's trial had been scheduled to open on Feb. 16, but was postponed for a month on a technicality.
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The budget is due now, but it has been postponed for three months .
plan
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It denies that its proposed purchase of GiroBank necessarily postpones the conversion plans .
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Connections had postponed running plans for the previously unbeaten Tenby until they had established the cause of his failure.
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But a quarter still expect to cut jobs, and 48 percent have postponed investment plans .
trial
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The overwhelming caseload has made the government reluctant to postpone trials , even though virtually all of the suspects lack defense attorneys.
visit
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Until now he had postponed thinking about the visit .
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But he had not guessed he would be and had postponed his visit till term ended in June.
week
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This latest meeting was then postponed until next week , by which time Ferguson will be on holiday.
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We're postponing things for a week .
year
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The legislation was postponed for nearly a year .
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The law took these steps but unexpectedly postponed them to the year 2000.
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Today he announced his decision ... that men can be admitted ... but ordered that the move be postponed for two years .
■ VERB
agree
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But under pressure to get Rohr on better financial footing, he agreed to postpone the project.
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They've agreed to postpone development of a rubbish dump for at least 10 years.
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However, it agreed to postpone until 1994 the negotiation of a new agreement between tropical timber producers and consumers.
ask
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Alternating child-care responsibility is a far cry from asking a woman to postpone her career to raise her children.
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Without counsel, Val was forced to cancel a due process hearing, asking it be postponed until she could get representation.
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McGee had asked the commission to postpone the appointment until after its ruling.
decide
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Judge Mallet wisely decided to postpone his ruling until September 13 in order to give himself time to deliberate on the matter.
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He decided to postpone his meditations and take up the subject again later.
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I decided I would postpone hostilities for a while.
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He decided to postpone thinking about it.
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It was decided to postpone the survey until the autumn term.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In 1968, the Oscar ceremony was postponed for two days, following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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Several of today's football games have been postponed because of heavy snow.
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They decided to postpone the wedding until Pam's mother was out of the hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And they postponed it until this Thursday.
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Even Beate postponed going out to join the group of older girls in the camp.
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I figured you might postpone it.
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It denies that its proposed purchase of GiroBank necessarily postpones the conversion plans.
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Lawmakers initially had been scheduled to vote on the bill Friday, but postponed the balloting for lack of sufficient votes.
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Richard Shelby, R-Ala., has twice postponed hearings on the nomination and expressed strong reservations about it.
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The freeing of oil prices was postponed until June from the target date of April 1.
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The proposed launch of the green paper last week was postponed on the orders of Downing Street.