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Noun postponement has 2 senses

• postponement(n = noun.time) delay, hold, time lag, wait - time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
is a kind of break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension
has particulars: extension, moratorium, retardation

• postponement(n = noun.act) deferment, deferral - act of putting off to a future time; Array
is a kind of delay, holdup
has particulars: adjournment
Derived form verb postpone₁

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postponement

Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.

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