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Postponer

Definition: Postponer

Postponer

Noun

1. Someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Postponer

Synonyms: cunctator (n), procrastinator (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Postponer

Language Translations for "postponer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

×"חין (laggard, procrastinator, slowcoach). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ostponerpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Postponer

Derivations

Words beginning with "postponer": postponers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Postponer"

Words rhyming with "postponer" (pronounced 'Post*pon"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Postponer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-p-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: postpone, propones.

-2 letters: enroots, operons, opposer, poorest, postern, propone, propose, protons, snooper, stooper, stopper, toppers.

-3 letters: enroot, nestor, netops, nooser, noters, operon, oppose, person, pontes, pornos, porose, poster, presto, pronto, proton, repots, respot, sooner, sprent, stoner, stoper, tenors, tensor, toners, topers, topper, torose, trones, troops, tropes.

-4 letters: estop, nerts, netop, noose, noter, notes, onset.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-p-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: postponers, proponents.

 

+2 letters: preportions, preposition, propionates.

 

+3 letters: lipoproteins, prepositions, protoplanets, reapportions.

 

+4 letters: opportuneness, opportunities, prepositional, propositioned, repopulations, superposition.

 

+5 letters: apportionments, expropriations, phosphoprotein, phosphorescent, pneumatophores, postdepression, preconceptions, predisposition, preoccupations, preproductions, presupposition, propitiousness, proportionates, superpositions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Postponer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 73 74 70 6F 6E 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    ---    ...    -    .--.    ---    -.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01110000 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#112 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0073 0074 0070 006F 006E 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508185868281807184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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