postpone
verb (used with object)
to put off to a later time; defer.
repostpone
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a word derived from
postpone.
Example Sentences
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“We postponed our honeymoon trip to the summer because of dissertation work, and then had to repostpone it because the work kept not finishing,” he said in a biography page on the Nobel website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
