1. The act or process of placing something after or later than originally planned; postponement.
Usage: Often used in linguistics and grammar contexts

1. Present participle of postpose; to place a word or element after another word or element in a sentence.
Usage: Primarily a linguistic/grammatical term

Examples

• The postposing of the adjective in Romance languages differs from English word order.
• In linguistics, postposing refers to moving a constituent to the right of its canonical position.
• The committee decided on postposing the meeting until next month.
• Postposing the object pronoun is common in some dialects of English.
• The postposing of the deadline caused frustration among the team members.
• Linguists study postposing as a syntactic phenomenon in various languages.