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Bookmark or Share- postpone + ing/to | WordReference ForumsThe Annual Directors' meeting has been postponed to respond to emergency issues in Central America. The Annual Directors' meeting has been postoned to December 29. We will postpone the meeting to December 29. We are postponing the meeting to December 29. Espero que estos ejemplos te sirvan.
- Postpone until vs. to | WordReference ForumsCan I postpone / put off the meeting 'until' or 'to' 8 o'clock? Are 'until' and 'to' the same in the context above? Thank you!
- postpone ... for or ...by | WordReference ForumsMy 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 for/to/until - WordReference ForumsIf 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.
- The opposite of postpone? [prepone?] - WordReference ForumsThe 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."
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