Usually means: Rearranging sentence elements for emphasis.
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  1. extraposition: Merriam-Webster
  2. extraposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extraposition: Collins English Dictionary
  4. extraposition: Wiktionary
  5. extraposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. extraposition: Dictionary.com
  7. Extraposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. extraposition: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Extraposition: Lexicon of Linguistics

Definitions from Wiktionary (extraposition)

noun:  (linguistics) The movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence.

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