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Another word for postponement

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postponement

n.

respite, suspension, adjournment; see delay 1, pause 1, 2.

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Another word for postponement

noun

The act of putting off or the condition of being put off:

adjournment, deferment, deferral, delay, stay¹, suspension, waiver. See time

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Many thought the postponement of emancipation unwise.
The existence of the soul in the body was its punishment for sins in a previous condition; and the doom of its sins in the body was its descent into other bodies, and the postponement of its deliverance " (Salmond's Christian Doctrine of Immortality, p. 109).
The leading principle in both is the postponement of the time for learning Latin.
These conditions formed the excuse for the continual postponement of the promised constitution.
Caused a temporary postponement of the constitutional crisis.

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