0 past simple and past participle of postpone
1 to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time:
The negotiations have been postponed indefinitely.
I was really angry when she asked me to postpone my trip to help her move house.
There's no point postponing the event just because the weather forecast is bad.
We decided to postpone the party until my parents had returned from America.
At this point, these facts are queried with ground queries only: queries with variables are postponed until also ground rules have been shown.
Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result.
Rather than rejecting responsible cabinets and a stronger central government role, these reform edicts postponed them to a later time.