postpone

Etymology

From Latin postpōnō (“I put after; I postpone”) from post (“after”) + pōnō (“I put; I place”), compare forestall.

verb

1. To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
   Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances – in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation. December 2 2020, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76
2. (obsolete) To place after in order; to deem less important.
   Why should the See of Antioch, that most ancient and truly Apostolical Church, where the Christian name began […] be postponed to Alexandria? 1687, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 3rd edition, page 161