Verb (used with object), : He has postponed his departure until tomorrow. ,to postpone private ambitions to the public welfare. From Dictionary.com.
I am not an 'action reporter,' after all, and the surgery is postponable. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Lenox Hill] Reference
A: "I think the economy has stopped shutting down, but you are seeing people getting by with less on what are 'postponable' purchases. From Wordnik.com. [Free Internet Press] Reference
This is non-cosmetic, postponable but not exactly elective surgery; wait too long and one could end up in the E.R. getting the surgery and suffer lifetime infirmity ordeath. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Failing To Understand How Markets Work:] Reference
The firm added that Big Lots stands the most to lose in its coverage group, given its high discretionary exposure and treasure-hunt characteristics that lead to a postponable purchase. From Wordnik.com. [Court Battle Bruises Oil Stocks] Reference
Two other significant differences relate to resources available to do the job, which are quite different order and finally the fact that a moon-launching is more postponable than a population census. From Wordnik.com. [500 Million Questions] Reference
We must tell individuals, families, communities, nations, continents and the global community that there is preventable death, there is postponable death, there is reversible death, and there is inevitable death. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Marshall: World AIDS Day: A Conversation From Uganda With Gideon Byamugisha] Reference
They will still buy postponable items, but seek better quality for the price or negotiate harder. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Households have quickly cut back on postponable purchases and discretionary items, especially big-ticket consumer durables such as autos, furniture, and appliances. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. News] Reference
She would have liked to flit back to the side of yonder great chimney breast, the spot where she had been surprised while sounding the panel work, but this was no time for postponable risks. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
What Harris calls "postponable purchases" -- housing, spending on durable goods such as cars, and business investment in equipment and software -- stood at 16.8 percent of gross domestic product in the second quarter. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
And, while youth and infant furniture, like cribs, are not as postponable as other furniture purchases, Wang says there are multiple channels in which to buy them and consumers are not buying as much of the extraneous pieces like desks, media centers, etc. From Wordnik.com. Reference
but with increasing regularity, things that were postponable were postponed. From Wordnik.com. [TEDBUNDY]
"Only the proletariat leading on the poorest peasants (the semi-proletariat as they are called in our program) ... may undertake the steps toward Socialism that have become absolutely unavoidable and non-postponable. From Wordnik.com. [Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy] Reference
The details of the contest between these various candidates I do not know, but the result was that Labouchere got the place, Howick and Charles Wood both resigned, and Clarendon had a conversation with Melbourne, in which the latter informed him, not without embarrassment, that he had been in hopes he should have had the Board of Trade to offer him, but that Labouchere's claim had been deemed not postponable, and all he had to offer him was the Mint without the Cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
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