"prepone" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-us-prepone.oga [US] Forms: prepones [present, singular, third-person], preponing [participle, present], preponed [participle, past], preponed [past]
Rhymes: -əʊn Etymology: Blend of pre- + postpone. See also Latin praepōno (“to place before”) Etymology templates: {{blend|en|pre-|postpone}} Blend of pre- + postpone, {{cog|la|praepōno||to place before}} Latin praepōno (“to place before”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)
  1. (chiefly India) To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time. Tags: India Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: advance, bring forward, hasten, antedate, expedite, move up, pre-pone Translations: aikaistaa (Finnish), aientaa (Finnish), varhentaa (Finnish), vorziehen (German), הקדים (Hebrew), előrehoz (Hungarian), előbbre hoz (Hungarian), korábbra tesz (Hungarian), fremskynde (Norwegian Bokmål), framskynde (Norwegian Bokmål), przesunąć na wcześniejszy termin [perfective] (Polish), przyspieszyć [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-prepone-en-verb-Al1ub8BG Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Indian English

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