2020年2月28日 · If you postpone a meeting "until next week" it means that, for example, a meeting scheduled for today, February 28th, will now be held sometime between March 2nd and March 6th. If a meeting is scheduled for some future week (say March 13th), it could be postponed "until the next week," that is, the week of March 16th-20th.

2010年5月10日 · My preferences go (2), (1), (3) from your list, "by" being a distant third. I think I would favor a vague "they" instead of a passive construction when using "postpone." "They postponed the game for two hours because of the rain." "The game was delayed for two hours because of the rain." I'm not entirely sure why this is so.

2011年9月20日 · We also say stupid things like "We have to get a move on, we need to move/postpone the deadline to next week." Not very helpfull of course. We need a new deadline. The deadline needs a specific date and time to be specified. Nevertheless, I would try to get away with postpone the deadline to a new date and time :--

2016年3月27日 · Hello everyone, I'd like to ask you, if there is a difference between the two words "adjourned" and "postponed". Up to now I have known only the latter one. In the James Bond movie "Spectre" I heart the sentence respectively sub title "Ladies and gentlemen, this evening session is adjourned"...

2006年12月10日 · The etymology of postpone, from M-W: Latin postponere to place after, postpone, from post-+ ponere to place While there is no word "pone" in the English language, this does not mean that "-pone" is meaningless, valueless, or otherwise unusable in another idiom, new or old. And, as I posted earlier, Webster's does feature the word "propone."

2016年2月1日 · Can I postpone / put off the meeting 'until' or 'to' 8 o'clock? Are 'until' and 'to' the same in the context above? Thank you!

2018年4月30日 · You need only 'postpone' because it means make it 'later'. Assuming you meant the second one. 'We need to postpone the meeting until the middle of May.'

2008年1月17日 · One of the major difficulty for a learner of the English language are prepositions. I often look for them on WordReference.com when I write in English but they are difficult to find. For instance, I am not sure of the preposition to put after the verb "postpone". Do I have to say: "This meeting has been postponed to January 30" or

2008年10月14日 · He asks them to push the meeting back by at least a week from October 25. Does it mean that the meeing will take place at least one week before October 25 or one week after October 25? Many thanks.

2021年11月27日 · To "postpone" is to cause or arrange something to take place at a later time or date. So I suppose if you say "I will postpone the date" you are saying " I will cause the date to take place at a later time", which sounds about right to me.