postponement
IPA: poʊstpˈoʊnmʌnt
noun
- A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
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Examples of "postponement" in Sentences
- This is a postponement from the earlier October 24 date.
- It wasn't clear whether the postponement was the news over which the stock was halted.
- The four-month postponement is expected to give entrepreneurs who need it a reasonable delay to get back on their feet and plan for the future.
- The postponement is down solely to, “personal circumstances of our attorney and has explicitly nothing to do with the content of the case,” says the post.
- "He tried to see whether he could succeed in getting them to have a long-term postponement by boycotting and the only thing they gave him was 24 hours, so he lost I think stage one."
- The Democrats realized the same thing, but rather than using this as leverage to get a long-term postponement to investigate the charges, the pressure really was just to have some kind of a hearing.
- The reason for the postponement is the controversy surrounding the issue of wine sales in grocery stores, which at least temporarily has created much uncertainty as to whether the liquor stores would participate in the promotion.
- As one black ball in six is sufficient to exclude a candidate -- or, to use the official euphemism, to cause his "postponement" -- it is not difficult for the coterie that controls the club to keep it clear of all noisy, or even of merely too conspicuous, individuality.
- In their 8th Rule, therefore, which declares, that while a question is bef ore the Senate, no motion shall be received, unless it be for the previous question, or to postpone, commit or amend the main question, the term postponement must be understood according to their broad use of it, and not in its Parliamentary sense.
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