Postponement vs Overdue - What's the difference?
postponement | overdue |
A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
:The lawyer asked for a postponement in the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
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As a noun postponement
is a delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.As an adjective overdue is
late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.postponement
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(postponements)overdue
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(en adjective)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}