Čo znamená postpone v angličtine a aká je definícia postpone?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť postpone výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

postpone Význam & definícia

0 to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time:
- They decided to postpone their holiday until next year.
- [ + -ing verb ] We've had to postpone going to France because the children are ill.
1 to delay an event or arrange for it to take place at a later time:
- The trip has been postponed twice.
2 to decide that an event should happen at a later time than originally planned:
- The oil giant said it had postponed a decision on whether to go ahead with the deal.
- The meeting was postponed for another week.
- postpone sth from/to sth The vote on the merger has been postponed from September 14 and looks unlikely to take place until the end of the year.

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.
The exams have been postponed until next month.
This procedure was decided upon so as not to postpone the beginning of the intervention for the children's sake.
Prisoners who were sick were advised to postpone family visits, and not to attend work while symptomatic.
However, the visit had to be postponed to the very end of the season because poor weather conditions delayed the whole programme.