put back

verb

1. to return to its former place

2. to move to a later time or date

   the wedding was put back a fortnight

3. to delay or impede the progress of

   the strike put back production severely

Example Sentences

The Church of England has revealed the deadline for a safeguarding review into the Tudor case has been put back to early next year, because of what it said was "new police information".

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I thought, If she’s right, this really could be the moment when the financial world gets put back into the box from which it escaped in the early 1980s.

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Many compared the way their own community treats them to being put back in the closet again.

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Speaking ahead of his party's annual conference in Aberdeen, Swinney also addressed the case of an eight-year-old girl with a serious condition whose surgery has been put back by 18 months.

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Downing Street has insisted that the removals will begin "imminently" - although initial plans for a flight to Paris today were put back.

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Related Words

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• oust 
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