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Definitions of postpone

1. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. Newage Dictionary DB

3. To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance. Newage Dictionary DB

4. To delay; defer; put off to another time. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

5. To put off to an after-period: to defer: to delay. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

6. Postponement. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

7. To put off; defer. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

8. To defer to a later time; put off. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

9. To put off; to defer. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

10. To put off to a future or later time; to adjourn; to delay. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

11. To put off; defer; delay; continue; adjourn; as when a hearing is postponed. Also to place after; to set below something else; as when an earlier lien is for some reason postponed to a later lien. The word "postponement," in speaking of legal proceedings, is nearly equivalent to "continuance;" except that the former word is generally preferred when describing an adjournment of the cause to another day during the same term, and the latter when the case goes over to another term. See State v. Underwood, 70 Mo. 630; State v. Nathaniel, 52 La. Ann. 558, 26 South. 1008. thelawdictionary.org

12. p[=o]st-p[=o]n', v.t. to put off to a future time: to defer: to delay: to subordinate.--n. POSTPONE'MENT, act of putting off to an after-time: temporary delay--also POSTP[=O]'NENCE (obs.). [L. postpon[)e]re, -positum--post, after, pon[)e]re, to put.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

13. Put off, defer; treat (thing) as inferior in importance (to another); (intr., Path., of ague &c.) be later in coming on. Hence postponement n. [Latin] Concise Oxford Dictionary