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Postpone :: Postpone (v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance..

Postponer :: Postponer (n.) One who postpones.

Postponement :: Postponement (n.) The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay..

Adjournal :: Adjournal (n.) Adjournment; postponement.

Table :: Table (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Deferment :: Deferment (n.) The act of delaying; postponement.

Postpone :: Postpone (v. t.) 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..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

Postponence :: Postponence (n.) The act of postponing, in sense 2..

Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

Remanet :: Remanet (n.) A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case.

Procrastinate :: Procrastinate (v. t.) To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance..

Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations..

Wait :: Wait (v. t.) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner..

Respite :: Respite (n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.

Ampliation :: Ampliation (n.) A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument..

Mora :: Mora (n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement..

Contango :: Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

Prolong :: Prolong (a.) To put off to a distant time; to postpone.

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