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delay until a later time

postponed = delayed until a later time

postpone = delay until a later time

There would be no postponement due to weather.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

postponement = the act of delaying until a later time

They planned to take a family vacation but postponed it.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

postponed = delayed until a later time

postponed = delayed until a later time

postpone = delay until a later time

Heck, we've gotten one postponement of this case just to make sure there's nothing to be uneasy about.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

postponement = delay until a later time

Excellency, if you postpone a week and publish to the town that you are striving for their confessions, that speak mercy on your part, not faltering.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

postpone = delay (until a later time)

John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement...
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

postponement = delay until a later time

Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
DANFORTH, studying the list: There will be no postponement.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
DANFORTH: There will be no postponement.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
PARRIS: Excellency, I would postpone these hangin's for a time.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
Thee evacuation was postponed again to the following day.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
The President submitted, and even postponed ringing his bell.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
If it's interrupted, it will postpone the inevitable.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
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
Then perhaps I had better postpone my analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the morning.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
He also decided to postpone his consultations; then lay down for some moments on the surgery couch.
Albert Camus -- The Plague

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