Postponement
[pəʊs(t)'pəʊnm(ə)nt] or [post'ponmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay.
Typed by Cedric
Examples
- She was face to face with a monstrous difficulty, and she resolved to get free of it by postponement. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This caused a postponement of the expedition until the later part of November, when, being again called upon by Hon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As it is, there's a postponement. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Seeing this, as he exchanged the usual salutations, Clennam decided to speak to his mother without postponement. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Edison would not consider a postponement of the exhibition, so there was nothing to do but go to work and wind it by hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the Sessions came round, Mr. Jaggers caused an application to be made for the postponement of his trial until the following Sessions. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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