Definition

Noun: A person who habitually delays or puts off tasks, duties, or decisions, often due to laziness, carelessness, or a tendency to procrastinate.

Usage

The term "postponer" specifically labels a person characterized by the act of postponing. It is used to describe someone's habitual behavior. - As a project manager, dealing with a chronic postponer on the team can be very challenging. - He earned a reputation as a postponer, always asking for extensions on his assignments.

Advanced Usage

• The Chronic Postponer: This phrase emphasizes the ingrained, habitual nature of the behavior.
  • The chronic postponer missed another deadline, much to the frustration of his colleagues.

Variants and Related Words

• Postpone (verb): To delay or put off an event or action to a later time.
  • They decided to postpone the meeting until next week.
• Procrastinator (noun): A very close synonym for "postponer," specifically highlighting the avoidance of tasks.
  • She admitted she was a procrastinator and always left her studying until the last minute.

Synonyms

• Procrastinator: Someone who delays or puts things off.
• Delayer: A person who causes delay.
• Dawdler: Someone who wastes time or lags behind.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• To put off until tomorrow what you can do today: This proverb describes the core action of a postponer.
  • His motto seemed to be to put off until tomorrow what he could do today, which is why nothing was ever finished on time.

Noun

1. someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)