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extrapose

American

[ek-struh-pohz] / ˌɛk strəˈpoʊz /

verb (used with object)

Linguistics.

extraposed, extraposing

to shift (a syntactic construction) to the end of a sentence.

Etymology

Origin of extrapose

Back formation from extraposition

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