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# postponement

«postponement» in Mova's school dictionary: **when an event is moved to a later time instead of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a postponement, postponements)

### meaning for a pupil

A postponement is when an event is moved to a later time instead of happening when planned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life sports matches, trips and parties have a postponement because of rain or illness; in stories it shows waiting or disappointment. Phrases: a postponement due to rain, announce a postponement.

### examples

- The match had a postponement because of snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#x1)
- We were sad about the postponement of sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#x2)
- The postponement was only for one week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#x3)
- Rain caused another postponement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#x4)
- The school announced a postponement of the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#x5)
- The postponement of the concert gave us more time to practise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/#x6)

### note

From the verb «postpone» (postpone, postpones, postponed). A postponement is not a cancellation: the event still happens, later. Countable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «postponement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postponement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.