postpone Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb hold back to a later time
prorogue; set back; defer; remit; put off; put over; shelve; table; hold over.
- let's postpone the exam

L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See Post-, and Position.

imperfect & past participle Postponed ; present participle & verbal noun Postponing

To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper.
To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.
All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this. Locke.
Syn. -- To adjourn; defer; delay; procrastinate.