All 4 Uses
postpone
in
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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- Then it occurred to us that Birmingham's mayoral election was coming up in March, and we speedily decided to postpone action until after election day.†
postpone = delay until a later time
- When we discovered that the Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor, had piled up enough votes to be in the run off, we decided again to postpone action until the day after the run off so that the demonstrations could not be used to cloud the issues.†
- Like many others, we waited to see Mr. Connor defeated, and to this end we endured postponement after postponement.†
*postponement = the act of delaying until a later time
- Like many others, we waited to see Mr. Connor defeated, and to this end we endured postponement after postponement.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(postpone) delay until a later time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)