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"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 • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 5
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 7
(1) decision, vote, election, voting
Kolokacji: 4
(2) plan, discussion, consideration
Kolokacji: 3
(3) trip, visit
Kolokacji: 2
(4) action, marriage, death, retirement, departure, ...
Kolokacji: 6
1. postpone action = odłóż działanie postpone action
2. postpone marriage = odłóż małżeństwo postpone marriage
3. postpone death = odłóż śmierć postpone death
4. postpone one's retirement = odkładać czyjś emerytura postpone one's retirement
postpone retirement
5. postpone one's departure = odkładać czyjś odjazd postpone one's departure
  • Pham postponed his departure from Namqem for two years, five.
  • "I fear you will have to postpone your departure," the priest said, her face and voice calm.
  • Mr. Lieberman postponed his departure from the government for at least a week.
  • She felt relieved after her decision to postpone her departure, and ready to do something.
  • Bad weather postponed her departure for Florida until 23 November 1945.
  • The remaining residents, fearing the future, postpone their departure but eventually are ordered to leave.
  • When that day came he postponed his departure.
  • But the sad fact is we can't postpone our departure.
  • So we must postpone our departure from Xanth until the search dies out.
  • She postponed her departure, in part, because of the terrorist attacks of last fall, officials said.
6. postpone reform = odłóż reformę postpone reform
(5) purchase, payment, repayment
Kolokacji: 3
(6) surgery, time, thing
Kolokacji: 3
(7) construction, publication, investment, gratification
Kolokacji: 4
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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