"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
5. postpone one's departure = odkładać czyjś odjazd postpone one's departure
6. postpone reform = odłóż reformę postpone reform
  • According to ProPublica, this massive amount of American aid has "enabled" the Egyptian government ot postpone democratic reform.
  • "You simply cannot postpone political reform and assuage political demands through economic prosperity alone," said Michel Oksenberg, the president of the East-West Center in Honolulu.
  • That resistance existed from others was demonstrated by Raul's announcement, in 2010, of an unprecedented pre-Congress conference to make personnel changes, in what was seen as a threat to those hoping to postpone reform.
  • There are those who argue that regulatory reform is the enemy of growth - that we should postpone reform.
  • He says his committee is not trying to postpone reform and denies wanting to damage the prime minister.
  • Jiang's biggest aim in the economy was stability, and he believed that a stable government with highly centralised power would be a prerequisite, choosing to postpone political reform, which in many facets of governance exacerbated the on-going problems.
  • Critics of Western engagement argue that handouts will allow the republics, already wealthy by international standards, to postpone economic reform.
  • "We're at the point where we can't postpone reform any longer," said Amadeu Dias, director of general employment in the Public Works Ministry.
  • Spending more money on the present system, he said, "would at best only postpone" real reform.
  • Aid to the Soviets, as subsidies and credit guarantees, he argues, will encourage the Soviet Union planners to postpone economic 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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