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means The act of pushing something back to a later time instead of doing it now.

from Built from Latin post- ('after') plus ponere ('to put, to place') — so, quite literally, 'to put after.' The same ponere root gives English a whole family of placement words: position, component, deposit. Postponement entered English in the 1500s as a formal, almost bureaucratic cousin of 'put off' — the Latinate version you'd use when delaying something important enough to need a longer word for it.