to place (a word or phrase) after other constituents in a sentence
postpose in American English
(poustˈpouz)
transitive verbWord forms: -posed, -posing
Grammar
to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form
The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out”
Word origin
[1925–30; post- + (pre)pose]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chain reaction, gimmick, hot spot, payload, runoutpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)