preponeverb [ T ]
uk/priːˈpəʊn/us/priːˈpoʊn/Indian Englishto do something at an earlier time than was planned or is usual:
The government might prepone these elections so we'd better be prepared.
Opposite
postpone
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Early
- be up with the lark idiom
- belated
- better
- better late than never idiom
- early
- early bird
- first
- good
- ill-timed
- in good time idiom
- lark
- mistime
- postdate
- premature
- pumpkin
- schedule
- short
- the early bird catches the worm idiom
- turn into a pumpkin idiom