postponed

[US]/pəust'pəun/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. delay, put off

Example Sentences

be postponed for an hour

the project was postponed because the computer crashed.

the visit had to be postponed for some time.

the club's excursion was postponed at the request of some of the members.

The meeting has been postponed to Friday.

The ball game was postponed because of rain.

They postponed leaving because of the weather.

We postponed the match from March 5th to March 19th.

He took up the position that the meeting should be postponed to next week.

The event has been postponed indefinitely due to lack of interest.

If pharmacological method had not been introduced to the study of vinca rosea, the discovery of vincaleukoblastine would have been postponed by many years.

The mother postponed all other business to the task of smoothing her crying child.

And this change is from east to west in Inner Mongolia.The climate warming postponed frostless period,decreased snow,hailstone,thunderstorm,gale and day count of dust storm,increased rainfall.

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