postponement

postpone | American Dictionary

postpone
verb[ T ]
us/poʊstˈpoʊn/
to delay an event or arrange for it to take place at a later time:
The trip has been postponed twice.

postponement

noun[ C/U ]us/poʊstˈpoʊn·mənt/
[ C/U ]Rain forced (a) postponement of the match.

postpone | Business English

postpone
verb[ T ]
uk /pəʊstˈpəʊn/us
to decide that an event should happen at a later time than originally planned:
The oil giant said it had postponed a decision on whether to go ahead with the deal.
The meeting was postponed for another week.
postpone sth from/to sthThe vote on the merger has been postponed from September 14 and looks unlikely to take place until the end of the year.

postponement

noun[ C or U ]
Sources say the deal will likely result in the postponement of a shareholder meeting scheduled for Monday.

Examples of postpone

postpone
This procedure was decided upon so as not to postpone the beginning of the intervention for the children's sake.
Prisoners who were sick were advised to postpone family visits, and not to attend work while symptomatic.
However, the visit had to be postponed to the very end of the season because poor weather conditions delayed the whole programme.
Because the risks remain undefined and unmeasured, should the federal government postpone action?
At this point, these facts are queried with ground queries only: queries with variables are postponed until also ground rules have been shown.
At this step, contextual knowledge is proceduralised and in the meantime operators postpone actions as sequences.
Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result.
Rather than rejecting responsible cabinets and a stronger central government role, these reform edicts postponed them to a later time.
It was a specific parental strategy to provide children with basic resources and to postpone to a later date the proper reward for their help.
Using survey data, they show that one-quarter of older workers say they postponed retirement due to equity market losses.
Highly educated women are more likely to postpone their childbearing, and when age is held constant the difference disappears.
Classes often start late and are shorter than the scheduled hours, and quite frequently, because their teachers are otherwise occupied, classes are postponed or cancelled.
These historical circumstances allow me to postpone dealing with the complex and understudied issue of when new parties and candidates enter the electoral fray.
In such cases, a cautious tokenizer produces alternative segmentations postponing the decision to a later processing stage.
We postpone a formal presentation to section 4.4, where we deal with a generalization of grammars discussed here.
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