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Postpone vs Postpose - What's the difference?

postpone | postpose |

As verbs the difference between postpone and postpose

is that postpone is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc while postpose is to place a word or phrase after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it.

postpone

English

Verb

(postpon)
  • To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}

    Synonyms

    * adjourn, defer, delay, forestay, procrastinate, put off, put on ice, stay, suspend

    Antonyms

    * advance * hasten * prepone (India )

    postpose

    English

    Verb

    (postpos)
  • (grammar) To place a word or phrase after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it
  • (obsolete) To postpone.
    • (Fuller)