"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 • ...
(3) trip, visit
Kolokacji: 2
1. postpone action = odłóż działanie postpone action
2. postpone marriage = odłóż małżeństwo postpone marriage
3. postpone death = odłóż śmierć postpone death
  • One reason is that people seem to postpone death, regardless of the cause, until after a birthday or holiday, his previous studies have found.
  • I mean that, used properly, these drugs indefinitely postpone death.
  • Can you believe that Noah was able to postpone death for eight hundred years by telling the angel that he was behind in his paperwork?
  • It follows from this that younger people will normally take preference over older people in the allocation of resources that would postpone death.
  • It does not seem, in general, valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost.
  • I want to grow old gracefully, but I am unwilling to postpone death indefinitely.
  • American church officials, however, have supported the removal of respirators in cases where it is felt that such medical equipment only postpones death.
  • Its philosophy statement on hospice is that it "affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death."
  • I shall postpone death again, until after I have disposed of James Oakbrook.
  • "You can postpone death, but not forever," read Michael.
5. postpone one's departure = odkładać czyjś odjazd postpone one's departure
6. postpone reform = odłóż reformę postpone reform
(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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