postpone
His lawyers requested a postponement of his trial.
Professional sports announced mass postponements and cancellations.
An indefinite postponement was ordered by the judge because of the danger posed by a violent protest taking place outside the courthouse.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pauses & interludes
abeyance
adjournment
asynchronously
break
break-journey
caesura
comfort stop
hiatus
hold something in abeyance
in abeyance
interlude
intermission
interval
moratorium
non-continuous
one-stop
pause
plateau
respite
suspension

Examples of postponement

postponement
Nonetheless, the basic idea remains attractive, not only for reducing turbulence levels but also for the postponement of laminar/turbulent transition.
The apparent postponement of saturation is postulated to be due to modification of the flow field by convergence.
For simplicity, we impose the postponement of retirement exogenously.
It was by no means certain that any category of agriculturist would gain from postponement.
The delay in the search for help was caused both by a misjudgment of the symptoms and by simple postponement.
Yet, like the autumn mists, it passed away, for a time, with 'compromise, postponement or evasion'.
The only value, and that a doubtful one, is the postponement of the attacks to the nonepidemic season.
Given the rapid inflation, tax postponement was essentially tantamount to tax forgiveness.
Currently observed age-parity specific stillbirth rates cannot be used to predict the consequences of deliberate postponement of childbearing by healthy women.
And postponement of first births during the early teenage years and second birth during the late teenage years may not, in fact, reduce neonatal mortality.
Postponement of gratification intuitively seems to be neutral since it is not clear why it matters when a person experiences gratification.
The reductions, remissions, and postponements granted from the beginning of 1931 were as follows.
Besides the foreign objection, there were domestic objections, which did not seem to contribute to the postponement.
The remaining districts show patterns of marriage postponement intermediate in character.
In the longer term, this could result in the improvements being maintained and in the postponement of any possible relapse.
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