Postpone an action
The crossword clue "Postpone an action" is answered by DEFER, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEFER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFER answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DEFER
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFER, most used first.
- Postpone - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- Put off - used 99 times, most recently in 2025
- Table - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Put on hold - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Put off until later - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Yield - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
- Hold off - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Reschedule for later - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Put off till later - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Put on the back burner - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Schedule for later - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Shelve - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Where the action is - ARENA, used 96 times
- Postpone - TABLE, used 41 times
- Postpone - DELAY, used 35 times
- Put into action - EXERT, used 28 times
- Piece of the action - SHARE, used 22 times
- Action words - VERBS, used 20 times
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