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Bookmark or Share- "Reschedule to" or "reschedule for"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...Reschedule for definitely sounds better in my head. If you were saying scheduled, you should use "for". Rescheduled, however, may use either "for" (which slightly emphasizes the new date) or "to" (which slightly emphasizes the fact that the time is being moved.) I disagree with the top answer (now edited).
- differences - "Postpone", "delay" and "defer" - English Language ...Also, delay can be a noun. "The delay was unforeseeable." Defer has a suggestion of being de-prioritized. It is a much less common synonym for postpone. It also implies that the action was initiated by someone who has the authority to delay an existing plan, except that the postponement occurred due to something beyond that person's control.
- What is the difference between postpone and cancelI thought I had a good understanding of the difference between "postpone" and "cancel," but lately I've seen officials using postpone instead of cancel, perhaps to soften the blow of cancelling a fun event. One city hosts a Blues Festival every year during the same month. The announcement said the festival was postponed until 2021.
- verbs - What is the opposite of postpone? - English Language & Usage ...The only antonym for postpone reported in the thesaurus is bring forward. – avpaderno. Mar 1, 2011 at 21:35. 2. I apparently thing of forward and back differently than you. "Postpone" seem to more relate to "bring forward" (i.e. forward more to the future) and whatever the opposite seems to relate more to "bring back". – Peter Olson.
- Is there a more common phrase that means "preponed"?The first sentence doesn't mean that the meeting as scheduled for an earlier time; if the meeting was first scheduled for the morning, saying that it has been moved to this afternoon would mean that the meeting has been postponed. –
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