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What does postpone mean?

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Verb
  1. To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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A Swindon iron man forced to postpone a mammoth 100-mile charity run last year has vowed to give it another shot.
Students who want to give birth have to be suspended from college so any student who doesn't want to give up study, has to postpone childbearing.
Worries about crime led councillors to postpone a decision on a leisure trail on a former railway.
Otherwise, your in-box will become a catch-all tray where things go when you want to postpone making a decision.
A coalition of 40 island states recently blocked an attempt to postpone a major 120-country meeting on climate change.
Painting over the rust conceals, but does not postpone, the inevitable collapse of a rotten structure.

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