Postponed

Definition: Postponed

Postponed

Adjective

1. Put off to later; "requested a deferred payment"; "our postponed trip".

Date "postponed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonym: Postponed

Synonym: deferred (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lateness	Adjective: late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory; (slow); delayed; Verb: in abeyance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Postponed

English words defined with "postponed": deferred ♦ Remanet ♦ To go over. (references)

Specialty definitions using "postponed": Surgical Procedures, Elective ♦ tax-deferred annuity, tax-deferred income, tax-deferred investment. (references)

Etymologies containing "postponed": Postpone. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Paradise Postponed (1986)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives) (reference) Delayed, not postponed (reference) Paradise Postponed (reference) Paradise Postponed (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Case of the Postponed Murder (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Author Unknown.	Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	If, however, within the period mentioned, Germany fails to discharge her obligations, any balance remaining unpaid may, within the discretion of the Commission, be postponed for settlement in subsequent years, or may be handled otherwise in such manner as the Allied and Associated Governments, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in this Part of the present Treaty, shall determine. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Finally, it appears prudent to prevent or reverse obesity, especially in individuals with a family history of diabetes, in the hope that the onset of diabetes may be prevented or postponed. (references)
Business		Since 1995, governments have postponed privatization. (references)
		Planned investments have been postponed until economic certainty returns. (references)
		The tendering and award process is postponed upon the chamber's decision to hear a plaintiff's claim. (references)
Civil Liberties	Kyrgyz Republic	The NAC's directive that Osh Television switch channels was postponed repeatedly. (references)
	Norway	In October 2000, all Kosovar Albanian families with small children were granted postponed implementation of deportation based on advice from U.N. agencies, which noted that there was a lack of suitable winter housing in Kosovo. (references)
	Malaysia	Ezam's case went to trial in August, but it was postponed and was ongoing at year's end. (references)
Economic History	Bolivia	At the same time international financial institutions have postponed the disbursement of US$ 87 million until an aggressive institutional reform is implemented. (references)
	Taiwan	Direct SEF-ARATS contacts resumed in April 1998, and the SEF Chairman visited the mainland in October 1998. A planned visit by ARATS Chairman Wang Daohan to Taiwan in the fall, however, was postponed following statements made by then-President Lee Teng-hui that relations between the P.R.C. and Taiwan should be conducted as "state-to-state" or at least as "special state-to-state relations." Since his May 20, 2000 inauguration, President Chen has called for resuming the cross-Strait dialogue without any preconditions. (references)
	Japan	The Japanese government was planning to implement health care reforms in April 2000. However, those plans were postponed due to a lack of a policy among interested parties. (references)
Human Rights	Algeria	An additional trip scheduled for the fall was postponed due to uncertainty in the region due to flooding. (references)
	Malaysia	His appeal to Federal Court, the country's highest court, was postponed at the request of his lawyers while Anwar was in the hospital being treated for a slipped disk in his back. (references)
	Malaysia	The Federal Court was scheduled to hear Anwar's appeal on the remaining corruption charges in November, but the appeal again was postponed, and no new date had been scheduled as of year's end. (references)
Minorities	Moldova	Parliament has postponed indefinitely the implementation of language testing, which was called for in the 1989 language law and was to have begun by 1994. There is no official discrimination against Roma in education employment, access to social services, or treatment by the police; however, other citizens regard Roma, who are concentrated in the northern town of Soroca on the Ukrainian border and a few other villages, unfavorably. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	At a June 2000 court session, a decision on the matter was postponed until August 2000. The case still was unresolved at year's end. (references)
	CHINA	Capital account liberalization has been postponed indefinitely. (references)
Political Rights	Lesotho	The March parliamentary elections were postponed by an agreement between all political parties, and the elections were scheduled for May 2002. Early in the year, the political parties were unable to agree on a new election law, including the composition of a new Parliament. (references)
	Pakistan	Held after a delay of 7 years, the national census was postponed repeatedly due to pressure from ethnic groups and provincial officials who feared diminished representation and access to federal funds. (references)
	Cameroon	The scheduled January 2002 municipal elections were postponed in early December, ostensibly to give the Observatory time to ensure free and fair elections. (references)
Trade	Argentina	Implementation of many of these regulations has been postponed several times. (references)
Worker Rights	Iceland	The day off can be postponed by a week, in which case the worker has a right to 2 additional hours off in the following week. (references)
	Gabon	In March court magistrates went on strike to protest poor working conditions and benefits; however, the strike was postponed when President Bongo indicated that he might meet some of their demands. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Among the results of this state of things has been that the treaties concluded at Panama do not appear to have been ratified by the contracting parties, and that the meeting of the congress at Tacubaya has been indefinitely postponed.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Action along this line should not be postponed beyond March, in order to avoid uncertainty and disruption.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Postponed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 78.68% of the time. "Postponed" is used about 651 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	78.68%	512	11,844
Lexical Verb (past tense)	15.8%	103	32,137
Adjective (general or positive)	5.21%	34	59,261
Noun (proper)	0.31%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	651	N/A

Expressions using "postponed": be postponed ♦ postponed reformatting ♦ postponed update. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "postponed": much-postponed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "postponed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		延期 (deferral, Postpone, Postponing). (various references)

Danish		forsinket reformatering (postponed reformatting), forsinket opdatering (postponed update, put-off update), forsinket akut operation (postponed operation emergency). (various references)

Dutch		uitstel BTW-systeem (postponed payment VAT system), uitgestelde herformattering (postponed reformatting), uitgesteld bijwerken (postponed update, put-off update), order (command, order), opdracht (commission, errand, mission). (various references)

Finnish		siirtyä (be postponed, be transferred, emigrate, immigrate, move, shift), lykkäytyä (be postponed, lie over), lykätty uudelleenmuotoilu (postponed reformatting), lykätty päivitys (postponed update, put-off update). (various references)

French		ajournai, ajournâmes, ajournèrent, ajourna. (various references)

German		verschob (deferred). (various references)

Greek		εκ των υστέρων αναμορφοποίηση (postponed reformatting), αναβεβλημένη ενημέρωση (postponed update, put-off update), αναβληθείσα αναμορφοποίηση (postponed reformatting). (various references)

Hebrew		�"חוי (deferred, delay, postponement, repelled), � �"ח�" (rejected). (various references)

Indonesian		ditangguhkan (cancelled). (various references)

Italian		slittare (be postponed, fall, skid, slide, slip), riformattazione differita (postponed reformatting), dilazione regime fiscale (postponed payment VAT system), aggiornamento differito (postponed update, put-off update). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		伸びる (to be exhausted, to be flattened, to be postponed, to be smoothed, to be straightened, to extend, to grow, to grow stale, to lengthen, to make progress, to spread, to stretch), 延期になる (to be postponed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		のびる (to be exhausted, to be flattened, to be postponed, to be prolonged, to be smoothed, to be straightened, to extend, to grow, to grow stale, to lengthen, to make progress, to spread, to stretch, wild rocambole), え�"きになる (to be postponed). (various references)

Korean		연기하�" (Delayed). (various references)

Manx		shlearit (procrastinated), lhiggit shaghey (procrastinated), currit jeh (deterred). (various references)

Pig Latin		ostponedpay

Russian		откладывать отложенный. (various references)

Spanish		urgencia de operación aplazada (postponed operation emergency), reformateo diferido (postponed reformatting), actualización diferida (postponed update, put-off update). (various references)

Swedish		uppskjuten uppdatering (postponed update, put-off update), uppskjuten omformatering (postponed reformatting), anstå (be postponed, become, befit, pertain, wait). (various references)

Turkish		ertelenmiş (delayed, suspended), ertelenen (deferred, suspensive, suspensory). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Postponed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pospone, posponed, postepone, postphone, postpond, postposed, ppostpone, prosponed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "postponed" (pronounced pōstpō"nd or pōspō"nd)
3	-ō" n d	bemoaned, boned, cloned, condoned, dethroned, disowned, droned, groaned, honed, intoned, loaned, moaned, owned, phoned, stoned, toned, zoned.
3	-ō" n d	bemoaned, boned, cloned, condoned, dethroned, disowned, droned, groaned, honed, intoned, loaned, moaned, owned, phoned, stoned, toned, zoned.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-p-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: postpone.
	-2 letters: opposed, snooped, snooted, spooned, stooped, stopped.
	-3 letters: depots, despot, netops, nodose, noosed, odeons, oppose, pontes, pooped, posted, sooted, sopped, stoned, stoped, tondos, topped.
	-4 letters: dents, depot, doest, dopes, dotes, estop, netop, nodes, noose, nosed, noted, notes, odeon, onset, opens, opted, pends, peons, pepos, pesto, poets, ponds, pones, poods, poons, poops, popes, posed.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-p-p-s-t"
	+4 letters: depopulations, propositioned.
	+5 letters: postdepression, predisposition, preproductions.
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