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postpone

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We need to give the option to postpone military service to those whose career peaks in their 20s.

From Fortune

The event, which was to be held this year, has been postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus—and may not be held at all.

From Fortune

Not only has the tool allowed those execs on the account to make faster and more informed decisions about when to replace, postpone, cancel and renegotiate ad dollars with media owners, it’s also spread those jobs across more of the team.

From Digiday

Protests by members of the Kumeyaay Nation have been postponing construction of a portion of the border wall in East County since the end of June.

Back in March, at the beginning of enforced lockdown, publishers, advertisers and conference companies assumed the fall would be stacked with postponed in-person events.

From Digiday

His first prescription when I saw him was to have the CAT scan test that I had been forced to postpone for a month and a half.

At this point, the photographer says, he decided that too many people knew about his trip and so he decided to postpone it.

Others postpone motherhood until they are financially stable.

The prerequisite for this is for the U.S. to postpone current efforts for some kind of political transition among Syrians.

We still need to see if that will happen, or if we need to postpone it.

I may be tempted to postpone my retirement, and for a while longer to continue to gather the golden harvest that ripens round me.

Better postpone your solace to more fitting time and place—the close of day and your own veranda.

If you love tea, postpone pipe till after it; no man can enjoy fine tea who has smoked.

The length of several of the communications in our present Number compels us to postpone this week our Notes on Books, &c.

If Arsenio had a mind to reform, let him postpone that reformation until Garnache should have done with him.

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to postpone, such as: adjourn, defer, delay, hold up, shelve, and suspend.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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