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postponements

postponements is the plural of postponement.

Meaning of postponement

Noun

postponement (countable and uncountable, plural postponements)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    cunctation, hold-up

Questions about postponements

What is postponements the plural of?
Postponements is the plural of postponement.

Words near postponements in the dictionary

  1. postpolysomal
  2. postponable
  3. postpone
  4. postponed
  5. postponement
  6. postponements
  7. postponence
  8. postponer
  9. postponers
  10. postpones
  11. postponing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postponements (page history and authors); postponement (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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