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How do you spell Postpone?

Correct spelling

postpone

POST + PONE. Think: place after.

Why is postpone spelled this way?

From Latin postponere, to place after. POST (after) + PONERE (to place). To postpone is to place after the present moment — delay as temporal rearrangement.

Common misspellings of postpone

postphonepostponnpostpinepostponee

Example

We had to postpone the meeting.

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