Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who postpones; one who delays or puts off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who postpones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
postpones .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)
Etymologies
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postpone + -er
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Examples
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"The old man said he'd raise me to twenty at Christmas if Bryan couldn't think of any harder name to call a Republican than a 'postponer,'" said the grocer's young man.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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Besides, she was an uncommonly good-looking woman -- a tall blonde with beautiful teeth, and wonderfully genial, good-humored, and lively -- an ideal nurse, but a terrible postponer of cures!
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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