For the moment, we want to postpone making a decision.
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Postpone
//poʊstˈpoʊn//
Synonyms for "postpone" (80 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
Related word relations
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More general
1 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
3 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesdistinct from
4 entriesentails
2 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 48 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- shtyj verb (to delay or put off an event)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀναβάλλω verb (to delay or put off an event)
Arabic
1 entries- أَجَّلَ verb (to delay or put off an event)
Armenian
1 entries- հետաձգել verb (to delay or put off an event)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təxirə salmaq verb (to delay or put off an event)
Bulgarian
2 entries- отлагам verb (to delay or put off an event)
- отсрочвам verb (to delay or put off an event)
Catalan
2 entries- ajornar verb (to delay or put off an event)
- posposar verb (to delay or put off an event)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 延緩 /延缓 verb (to delay or put off an event)
Czech
2 entries- odložit verb (to delay or put off an event)
- odročit verb (to delay or put off an event)
Danish
2 entries- udskyde verb (to delay or put off an event)
- udsætte verb (to delay or put off an event)
Dutch
4 entries- achterstellen verb (to delay or put off an event)
- opschorten verb (to delay or put off an event)
- uitstellen verb (to delay or put off an event)
- verschuiven verb (to delay or put off an event)
Esperanto
1 entries- prokrasti verb (to delay or put off an event)
Estonian
1 entries- edasi lükkama verb (to delay or put off an event)
Finnish
3 entries- lykätä verb (to delay or put off an event)
- myöhäistää verb (to delay or put off an event)
- siirtää myöhemmäksi verb (to delay or put off an event)
French
4 entries- différer verb (to delay or put off an event)
- postposer verb (to delay or put off an event)
- remettre verb (to delay or put off an event)
- reporter verb (to delay or put off an event)
German
3 entries- aufschieben verb (to delay or put off an event)
- verschieben verb (to delay or put off an event)
- zurückstellen verb (to delay or put off an event)
Greek
2 entries- αναβάλλω verb (to delay or put off an event)
- ετεροχρονίζω verb (to delay or put off an event)
Hebrew
1 entries- דחה verb (to delay or put off an event)
Hindi
2 entries- टालना verb (to delay or put off an event)
- स्थगन verb (to delay or put off an event)
Hungarian
3 entries- elhalaszt verb (to delay or put off an event)
- elnapol verb (to delay or put off an event)
- későbbre halaszt verb (to delay or put off an event)
Icelandic
1 entries- fresta verb (to delay or put off an event)
Ido
1 entries- ajornar verb (to delay or put off an event)
Indonesian
1 entries- menunda verb (to delay or put off an event)
Italian
1 entries- rimandare verb (to delay or put off an event)
Japanese
1 entries- 延期する verb (to delay or put off an event)
Khmer
2 entries- បង្ខន verb (to delay or put off an event)
- បង្អែរបង្អង់ verb (to delay or put off an event)
Korean
1 entries- 연기하다 verb (to delay or put off an event)
Kumyk
2 entries- айырып къоймакъ verb (to delay or put off an event)
- бир янгъа салмакъ verb (to delay or put off an event)
Lithuanian
1 entries- atidėlioti verb (to delay or put off an event)
Māori
4 entries- hiki verb (to delay or put off an event)
- pāuhu verb (to delay or put off an event)
- tinaku verb (to delay or put off an event)
- whakatārewa verb (to delay or put off an event)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ajournere verb (to delay or put off an event)
- utsette verb (to delay or put off an event)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- utsetje verb (to delay or put off an event)
- utsette verb (to delay or put off an event)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صالمق verb (to delay or put off an event)
Polish
4 entries- odkładać verb (to delay or put off an event)
- odraczać verb (to delay or put off an event)
- odroczyć verb (to delay or put off an event)
- odłożyć verb (to delay or put off an event)
Portuguese
2 entries- adiar verb (to delay or put off an event)
- postergar verb (to delay or put off an event)
Romanian
1 entries- amâna verb (to delay or put off an event)
Russian
4 entries- откла́дывать verb (to delay or put off an event)
- отложи́ть verb (to delay or put off an event)
- отсро́чивать verb (to delay or put off an event)
- отсро́чить verb (to delay or put off an event)
Southern Altai
2 entries- башка салып койор verb (to delay or put off an event)
- кеде салар verb (to delay or put off an event)
Spanish
4 entries- aplazar verb (to delay or put off an event)
- atrasar verb (to delay or put off an event)
- perecear verb (to delay or put off an event)
- posponer verb (to delay or put off an event)
Swedish
3 entries- senarelägga verb (to delay or put off an event)
- skjuta upp verb (to delay or put off an event)
- uppskjuta verb (to delay or put off an event)
Telugu
1 entries- వాయిదావేయు verb (to delay or put off an event)
Thai
1 entries- เลื่อน verb (to delay or put off an event)
Turkish
1 entries- ertelemek verb (to delay or put off an event)
Ukrainian
4 entries- відкла́сти verb (to delay or put off an event)
- відклада́ти verb (to delay or put off an event)
- відстро́чити verb (to delay or put off an event)
- відстро́чувати verb (to delay or put off an event)
Venetan
1 entries- remandar verb (to delay or put off an event)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoãn verb (to delay or put off an event)
Welsh
1 entries- gohirio verb (to delay or put off an event)
Yiddish
1 entries- אָפּלייגן verb (to delay or put off an event)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
You may as well postpone your departure.
Source: tatoeba (69216)
We were to be married in May but had to postpone the marriage until June.
Source: tatoeba (247833)
We will have to postpone the game.
Source: tatoeba (248112)
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