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51delay endorsement — postpone or hold up approval …
52extend a deadline — postpone the date or time by which something must be done …
53lay off — postpone; fire, dismiss from a job …
54put off — postpone; take off clothing (Archaic); disgust, repulse; deter …
55put something off — postpone something, delay something …
56put something off — postpone something. → put …
57postponement — postpone ► VERB ▪ arrange for (something) to take place at a time later than that first scheduled. DERIVATIVES postponement noun. ORIGIN Latin postponere, from post after + ponere to place …
58hold something over — POSTPONE, put off, put back, delay, defer, suspend, shelve, hold in abeyance; N. Amer. put over, table, take a rain check on; informal put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage, mothball. → hold …
59Table (parliamentary procedure) — In parliamentary procedure, a motion to table has two different and contradictory meanings: In the United States, table usually means the motion to lay on the table or motion to postpone consideration; a proposal to suspend consideration of a… …
60Subsidiary motion — NOTOC A subsidiary motion, in parliamentary procedure, is a type of motion by which a deliberative assembly deals directly with a main motion prior to (or instead of) voting on the main motion itself. [Cite parl|title=RONR|edition=10th|pages=60… …