Crossword-Solution: POSTPONEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Postponement | n. | The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. |
We have 79 clues for the answer “POSTPONEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A rescheduling for later | 1 answer |
| HINDRANCE to progress | 7 answers |
| ACT OF PUTTING OFF TO A FUTURE TIME | 11 answers |
| FLIGHT of time | 15 answers |
| gaining time | 18 answers |
| slackening | 26 answers |
| letup | 29 answers |
| cancelling | 32 answers |
| inactivating | 32 answers |
| inactivation | 32 answers |
| remanet | 36 answers |
| Breathing space? | 38 answers |
| cold storage | 40 answers |
| Breather | 41 answers |
| tabling | 41 answers |
| putting off | 42 answers |
| Deferring | 42 answers |
| shelving | 42 answers |
| moratorium | 43 answers |
| interregnum | 44 answers |
| demurral | 49 answers |
| Procrastination. | 49 answers |
| Delaying | 51 answers |
| Adjournment | 52 answers |
| Time-out | 55 answers |
| Recreation | 57 answers |
| tarrying | 58 answers |
| truce | 59 answers |
| interlude | 59 answers |
| objectivity | 59 answers |
| restfulness | 59 answers |
| mitigation | 60 answers |
| pacification | 60 answers |
| Time out | 60 answers |
| alleviation | 60 answers |
| Assistance | 61 answers |
| easement | 61 answers |
| neutrality | 61 answers |
| reconciliation | 61 answers |
| amnesty | 62 answers |
| appeasement | 62 answers |
| exemption | 63 answers |
| Entente | 63 answers |
| discontinuity | 64 answers |
| Accommodation | 65 answers |
| candour | 65 answers |
| Easing | 65 answers |
| peaceful state | 65 answers |
| ARMISTICE ___ | 66 answers |
| Deliverance | 66 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with POSTPONEMENT (5)
She had sent one courier with a respectful letter of excuse to His Royal Highness, begging for a postponement of the august visit on account of pressing and urgent business, and another on ahead to bespeak a fresh relay of horses at Faversham.
The country is evidently not in a condition to listen patiently to pleas for postponement, however plausible, nor will it permit the responsibility to be shifted to other shoulders.
But it did not greatly matter, for their past was now rich enough to have given them a private language; and with the long day stretching before them like the blue distance beyond the hills there was a delicate pleasure in postponement.
Even in his first moment of exasperation it struck him as characteristic that she should not have padded her postponement with a fib.
The Dorsets’ invitation to go abroad with them had come as an almost miraculous release from crushing difficulties; and her faculty for renewing herself in new scenes, and casting off problems of conduct as easily as the surroundings in which they had arisen, made the mere change from one place to another seem, not merely a postponement, but a solution of her troubles.
Quotes with POSTPONEMENT (3)
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, …
As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2020).