Usually means: Delays or defers to later time.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. postpones: Merriam-Webster
  2. postpones: Collins English Dictionary
  3. postpones: Vocabulary.com
  4. Postpones, postpones: Wordnik
  5. postpones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. postpones: Wiktionary
  7. postpones: Dictionary.com
  8. postpones: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. postpones: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. postpones: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. postpones: Legal dictionary

(Note: See postpone as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (postpone)

verb:  To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
verb:  (obsolete) To place after in order; to deem less important.
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