postponement
postponement noun: a delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
Noun
postponement (countable and uncountable, plural postponements)
- A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
- The lawyer asked for a postponement in the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.
- The postponement of homosexual behavior in men who know that they are homosexual can cause psychological anxiety and retard mature ego development.1976 February 7, Philip Gambone, “Coming Out: The Gay Identity Process”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 4
- Synonyms:
- cunctation, hold-up
postponement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
postponement in Hindi
- the state of being adjourned
- स्थगन sthagan
postponement in Tamil
- காலம் கடத்துதல், தள்ளி வைத்தல், தள்ளிப் போடுதல் ஒத்தி வைத்தல், தள்ளிவைப்பு, கால நீட்டிப்பு
postponement in Urdu
- التوا, ٹال مٹول
postponement in Malayalam
- നിറുത്തിവയ്ക്കൽ, മാറ്റിവയ്ക്കൽ, വ്യാക്ഷേപം, നീക്കിവയക്കൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- postponement in Kannada
- ಮುಂದೂಡಿಕೆ
- postponement in Indonesian
- penundaan
Synonyms of postponement
Forms of postponement
| plural | postponements |
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Origin of postponement
From postpone + -ment.
Words formed from postponement
Questions about postponement
- What does postponement mean?
- Postponement means a delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
- What is postponement in Hindi?
- Postponement in Hindi is स्थगन (sthagan). See Postponement meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is postponement?
- Postponement is a noun.
- What is the plural of postponement?
- The plural of postponement is postponements.
Words near postponement in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: postponement (page history and authors); postponement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); postponement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); postponement (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); postponement (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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