"postpone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

postpone verbo

postpone + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 25
postpone a decision • postpone plans • postpone one's trip • postpone a vote • postpone action • ...
2. postpone discussion = odłóż dyskusję postpone discussion
  • I will postpone consideration of the obligation to obey the law until the last section of this chapter.
  • The city has agreed to postpone consideration of acceptance of the grant funds.
  • But Republican leaders refused to bring the issue to a quick vote, and under Senate rules they were able to postpone consideration until next week.
  • I propose that we postpone further consideration of Dwan Jar.
  • It also intends to do all that it can "to postpone consideration" of loan applications.
  • We, nevertheless, postpone consideration of the state until the next chapter.
  • Parliamentary leaders in Bonn have been postponing consideration of several painful issues, including immigration, until after the elections.
  • A motion to postpone consideration of the commission's proposal failed Tuesday morning.
  • The defendants agreed that the court should postpone consideration of its arguments for summary dismissal until the case was fully briefed.
  • The General Assembly voted to postpone for two years consideration of a ban on human cloning.
(3) trip, visit
Kolokacji: 2
(5) purchase, payment, repayment
Kolokacji: 3
(6) surgery, time, thing
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + postpone
Kolokacji: 9
decide to postpone • keep postponing • agree to postpone • consider postponing • forced to postpone • ...
postpone + preposición
Kolokacji: 19
postponed until • postponed for • postponed from • postponed to • postpone on • ...
postpone + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 12
postponed indefinitely • repeatedly postponed • postponed twice • later postponed • merely postpone • ...

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