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- postpone for to until - WordReference Forums
If you postpone a meeting "until next week" it means that, for example, a meeting scheduled for today, February 28th, will now be held sometime between March 2nd and March 6th If a meeting is scheduled for some future week (say March 13th), it could be postponed "until the next week," that is, the week of March 16th-20th
- postpone . . . for or . . . by | WordReference Forums
My preferences go (2), (1), (3) from your list, "by" being a distant third I think I would favor a vague "they" instead of a passive construction when using "postpone " "They postponed the game for two hours because of the rain " "The game was delayed for two hours because of the rain " I'm not entirely sure why this is so
- Postpone vs delay - WordReference Forums
POSTPONE implies an intentional deferring usually to a definite time the game is postponed until Saturday DELAY implies a holding back, usually by interference, from completion or arrival
- The opposite of postpone? [prepone?] - WordReference Forums
The etymology of postpone, from M-W: Latin postponere to place after, postpone, from post-+ ponere to place While there is no word "pone" in the English language, this does not mean that "-pone" is meaningless, valueless, or otherwise unusable in another idiom, new or old And, as I posted earlier, Webster's does feature the word "propone "
- to postpone + gerund or infinitive - WordReference Forums
Hi fellows I would like to know ifthe verb "postpone" is followed by an ing verb or an infinitive on the whole As a case in point look at this sentence: "Mrs Brown had postponed travelling to India ", is that right or it should say Mrs Brown had postponed to travel to India ? thanks in advance, -
- put off until tomorrow vs. postpone for tomorrow
To postpone is to reschedule for a later time; to put off is to avoid, usually repeatedly, until the latest possible day or time, if there is any The common maxim advises us not to "put off" for another day (procrastinate) something that can (just as well) be done today
- Postpone until vs. to | WordReference Forums
Can I postpone put off the meeting 'until' or 'to' 8 o'clock? Are 'until' and 'to' the same in the context above? Thank you!
- extend the deadline or postpone the deadline - WordReference Forums
We also say stupid things like "We have to get a move on, we need to move postpone the deadline to next week " Not very helpfull of course We need a new deadline The deadline needs a specific date and time to be specified Nevertheless, I would try to get away with postpone the deadline to a new date and time :--
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