Today's Word "Prepone"
Published in Vocabulary
prepone \pree-PON\ (verb) - To advance a date or appointment.
"We don't have any appointments for a later date; could we prepone your present appointment a week?"
Usage of this term seems to be rising in the medical profession, especially in Canada, and it has been in wide usage in India for 50 years. It is derived from English's bottomless pit of Latin lexical constituents, the prefix pre- "before" and ponere "to place, put" by analogy with "postpone."
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