Postponement

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Postponement \Post*pone"ment\, n.
     The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a
     future time; a temporary delay. --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  postponement
       n 1: time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay
            caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the
            action" [syn: {delay}, {hold}, {time lag}, {wait}]
       2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: {deferment}, {deferral}]