Meaning & use
postponing
Delaying an event or action to a later time.
See it in a sentence
The organizers announced they were postponing the concert due to heavy rain.
She kept postponing the dentist appointment until her tooth finally hurt too much to ignore.
A note on using this word
Postponing takes a gerund or noun object, as in 'postponing the meeting', not an infinitive.
Words with a similar meaning
delayingdeferring
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Words with an opposite meaning
advancing
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