What Does the Word Postpose Mean?

1 obsolete : postpone sense 2a,b. 2 : to place (as a particle) after a grammatically related word the articles … are postposed in Scandinavian and Rumanian— M. H. Swadesh.

What is mean by post pose?

post·pose. (pōst-pōz′) tr.v. post·posed, post·pos·ing, post·pos·es. To place (a word or phrasal constituent) after another constituent in a sentence, as the direct object noun phrase all the interesting places he had visited in the sentence He described to them all the interesting places he had visited.

What does the word postponing?

1 : to put off to a later time : defer. 2a : to place later (as in a sentence) than the normal position in English postpone an adjective. b : to place later in order of precedence, preference, or importance.