The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
POSTPONED
Verb
postponed
simple past tense and past participle of postpone
Adjective
postponed (comparative more postponed, superlative most postponed)
Done later than originally planned; delayed.
Source: Wiktionary
POSTPONE
Post*pone", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postponed; p. pr. & vb. n. Postponing.] Etym: [L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See Post-, and Position.]
1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper.
2. To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance. All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this. Locke.
Syn.
– To adjourn; defer; delay; procrastinate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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