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Meaning of "postponable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTPONABLE

postponable  [pəʊstˈpəʊnəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTPONABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postponable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POSTPONABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of postponable in the English dictionary

The definition of postponable in the dictionary is able to be postponed.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTPONABLE


actionable
ˈækʃənəbəl
atoneable
əˈtəʊnəbəl
attainable
əˈteɪnəbəl
condonable
kənˈdəʊnəbəl
fashionable
ˈfæʃənəbəl
imaginable
ɪˈmædʒɪnəbəl
loanable
ˈləʊnəbəl
objectionable
əbˈdʒɛkʃənəbəl
obtainable
əbˈteɪnəbəl
ownable
ˈəʊnəbəl
questionable
ˈkwɛstʃənəbəl
reasonable
ˈriːzənəbəl
returnable
rɪˈtɜːnəbəl
stonable
ˈstəʊnəbəl
stoneable
ˈstəʊnəbəl
sustainable
səˈsteɪnəbəl
tunable
ˈtjuːnəbəl
unatonable
ˌʌnəˈtəʊnəbəl
unputdownable
ˌʌnpʊtˈdaʊnəbəl
unreasonable
ʌnˈriːznəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTPONABLE

postpartum
postpartum depression
postperson
postpollination
postpone
postponement
postponence
postponer
postpose
postposition
postpositional
postpositionally
postpositive
postpositively
postprandial
postprandial thermogenesis
postprimary
postprison
postproduction
postpuberty

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTPONABLE

able
abominable
assignable
convenable
enable
explainable
fissionable
intenable
interminable
listenable
pensionable
personable
turnable
unable
unalienable
unattainable
unimaginable
unquestionable
unsustainable
untenable
user-definable

Synonyms and antonyms of postponable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postponable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTPONABLE

Find out the translation of postponable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of postponable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «postponable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

可延迟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prorrogable
570 millions of speakers

English

postponable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

postponable
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

postponable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

postponable
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prorrogável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

postponable
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

différable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boleh ditunda
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aufschiebbaren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

延期可能な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

postponable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Postponable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

postponable
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

postponable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अविकसित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ertelenemez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

differibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postponable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

postponable
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

postponable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

postponable
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

postponable
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

postponable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postponable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postponable

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTPONABLE»

The term «postponable» is used very little and occupies the 191.278 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTPONABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about postponable

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTPONABLE»

Discover the use of postponable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postponable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
These costs are called postponable costs, e.g. maintenance relating to building and machinery, etc. They do not affect the operational efficiency of the firm. This distinction of cost becomes quite obvious during the period of war or inflation ...
M. KASI REDDY, S. SARASWATHI, 2007
2
Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions ...
Certain items of consumption are postponable, necessarily so. For example, the individual may "need" only one holiday each year. It is sensible for him to plan his holiday for a period when either income receipts are higher than usual or when ...
James M. Buchanan, 1967
3
Managerial Economics
Study of urgent and postponable costs helps in deciding proper time to incur capital expenditure so that comfortable cash management may be assured. (XII) REPLACEMENT AND HISTORICAL COSTS 1. Replacement Costs. These include ...
Arun Kumar, Rachana Sharma, 1998
4
Dynamic Fleet Management for International Truck ...
A plan is made feasible by inserting all unpost- ponable orders with the help of Best Insertion, re-arrangement of orders, and extraction of postponable orders. Subsequently, a Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) improvement procedure is ...
Steffen Schorpp, 2011
5
Distribution Logistics: Advanced Solutions to Practical Problems
In practice it is sensible to assume that such requests will be postponable for the current shift. Moreover, at each iteration a guess on future position of the vehicles has to be made. Such guess is difficult in practice. However, using small values ...
Bernhard Fleischmann, Andreas Klose, 2012
6
Managerial Economics: Concepts and Cases
Some others which are easy to understand are controllable and uncontrollable costs, urgent and postponable costs, and escapable and unavoidable costs. No firm keeps its records in such a flexible and detailed form as to turn out estimates  ...
Victor L. Mote, Samuel Paul, 1977
7
Construction Equities: Evaluation and Trading
The fallacy ofnon-postponable maintenance The comments above are not to deny that there is still a significant maintenance content to the sector, but here we come to the second error, or the fallacy of non-postponable maintenance. While it is ...
Fred Wellings, 1994
8
The Critics of Keynesian Economics
On the assumption that a large part of an entrepreneur's expenditures are ordinarily of the postponable class in the sense that they can be deferred without forcing a reduction of the scheduled rate of current output, even tho not without ...
Henry Hazlitt, 1960
9
John Maynard Keynes: Critical Responses
On the assumption that a large part of an entrepreneur's expenditures are ordinarily of the postponable class in the sense that they can be deferred without forcing a reduction of the scheduled rate of current output, even tho not without ...
Charles Robert McCann, 1998
10
Innovations in Distribution Logistics
Let r1P and r1U represent the number of postponable and unpostponable requests served today, respectively. Moreover, let r1 and l1 denote the total number of served requests and the total length of the routes traveled in the current day, ...
Luca Bertazzi, M. Grazia Speranza, Jo van Nunen, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTPONABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term postponable is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How Europe reacted after the Greeks voted 'No'
He said major reform of Europe was “no longer postponable”: “If we remain prisoner to rules and bureaucracy, Europe is finished.” ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
Renzi says EU finished without overhaul for growth- update
"The second - even more interesting and complex, but no longer postponable - is the Europe worksite. "For months we have been insisting on ... «Gazzetta del Sud english, Jul 15»
3
The Republic of Bad Taste
He didn't know how long he'd knelt on the grass having extraneous and postponable thoughts, but he feared that it was a lot more time than it ... «The New Yorker, May 15»
4
Floor manufacturer appealing straight to consumers in new digital …
In other words, flooring is a "postponable purchase," says Kathy Young, vice president of marketing services at Shaw. "We were looking at 10, ... «Chattanooga Times Free Press, May 15»
5
That Mike Conley Game
When the time came to choose classes for the spring semester, I heavily debated foregoing a crucial but postponable course to keep that ... «Grizzly Bear Blues, Mar 15»
6
EPPIA Senior Focus: Strength training for seniors
Eighty percent of the health problems once associated with aging are now thought to be preventable or postponable if person keeps fit,” ... «SW News Media, Feb 15»
7
Scientists Stand By Claim That 'Bad Luck' Causes Most Cancer
Why is it so hard for the medical community to handle that there are no preventable deaths, only postponable ones? Rational people will still ... «Forbes, Feb 15»
8
Which Sectors Are Best for Dividend Investors?
The sector's yield is lowest of all at only 1.47%. And, because their goods are postponable purchases, companies in this sector suffer when the ... «Financial-Planning.com, Jan 15»
9
2015 Douglas County Spelling Bee: Word list 9
postponable. capable of being deferred or delayed. “Andre declared that the convention was not postponable.” doughiness. the quality or state ... «NRToday.com, Jan 15»
10
£250 energy saving from new 'black box'
For domestic users there will always be a limit to how much of your demand is 'postponable'.” kate.palmer@telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Energy ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»

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