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postponed

/pohst-pohn, pohs-/US // poʊstˈpoʊn, poʊs- //UK // (pəʊstˈpəʊn, pəˈspəʊn) //

推迟的,推迟,延期,延期的

Related Words

defer延期,推迟,延迟,押后suspend暂停,悬挂,吊销,暂缓delay延迟,拖延,拖延时间,延误hold up举起,抬起,举出,抬头shelve搁置,搁浅,搁架,搁置的adjourn休会,押后,休庭,休会期table桌子,表格,表,餐桌pigeonhole鸽子洞,鸽子笼,鸽子窝,阁楼prorogue序幕,序言,序曲,序厅cool it冷却它,凉拌,冷静,冷静下来hang fire挂火,绞刑,挂机,绞杀hold off抵制,搁置,拖住,隐瞒hold over搁置,把握住,保留,把握住了lay over搁置,敷设,叠加,铺设put back放回原处,转回,放回put on hold搁置,搁置的,放置,暂缓执行

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    post·poned, post·pon·ing.

    • : to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
    • : to place after in order of importance or estimation; subordinate: to postpone private ambitions to the public welfare.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.deferred
Synonyms
delayed延迟的,拖延的,延误的,迟来的suspended暂停,暂停使用,悬浮,悬挂adjourned休会,休会了,休会中,押后intermitted间断的,断断续续,间断,间歇式prorogued停办了,停办,停刊,停产scrubbed擦洗过的,擦洗的,擦洗,擦拭shelved搁置的,已上架,被搁置的,被搁置tabled已提交,提交,提交的,已提交的withheld扣留,扣留的,扣留了,隐瞒on hold搁置,搁置中,待定,搁浅put off推迟,延缓,推迟了,推迟执行

Examples

  • The American Athletic Conference released an updated schedule Friday to account for recently postponed games.

  • Whether it’s the notion of postponing a show or whether it’s this idea of selling collections, you want to make sure that anything you do, you use people who you trust.

  • To this point, 78 college football games have been either canceled or postponed because of the virus.

  • The new guidance says that “postponing travel and staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others this year” and offers questions Americans should ask themselves before making a trip.

  • The NHL already postponed the 2021 Winter Classic in Minneapolis and the 2021 All-Star Game in South Florida.

  • Yes, he may have been ill, but if he was politically healthy, the meeting would have been postponed until he was able to appear.

  • Each has merely postponed the problem—and neither political party has shown much understanding of how to start solving it.

  • More than once the Iraqis we worked with postponed our engagements so they could mourn slain colleagues.

  • The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover from childbirth and to wean the new baby.

  • Planned Naval cooperation talks are now indefinitely postponed.

  • Three times the squadron of frigates got ready to accompany the new minister, but each time the minister postponed his departure.

  • He needs her to witness for his clients, and Momsy says the hearing before the Surrogate cannot be postponed again.

  • The final vote was therefore again postponed until the following day.

  • If you happen to call too close to a meal-time in one of these towns, the meal will be postponed until you leave.

  • But further operations against Scotland were postponed till Hereford and the other prisoners of note could be ransomed home.

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