prepone
To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
Verb India, transitive
- To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
Synonyms: advance bring forward hasten antedate expedite move up
Antonyms: postpone
Origin
Blend of pre- + postpone, 1913.
Forms
Derived
Verb obsolete, rare
- To place or set (something) before.
- I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall in anye wyſe. - 1549 September 30 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Crowley, transl., “The .xvi. Psalme”, in The Psalter of...
- When theſe Characters curt, and ſhort Essayes, / Right Worſhipfull, vnworthie of Your view, / At ſome ſucceſſiue Hours, on ydle dayes, / My Pen, for Pinſell; Coale, for Colours, drew, / I ſtood, and ſtudi’d, whoſe...
- If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies. - 1653 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), D. W., “XLIX. A further reply.”, in Thomas Blount, The...
Origin
From Latin praepōnō.