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(56,582 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 11:33 PM Jan 2014

Is "prepone" a thing in US business-speak?

I can't tell if this is a new thing generally or just something in India. Do people in the US say "prepone" (ie, like "postpone", but move the meeting forward in time rather than backwards)? I actually kind of dig that term.

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Is "prepone" a thing in US business-speak? (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2014 OP
Not that I ever heard before. Paulie Jan 2014 #1
She was funny in That 70's Show. Orrex Jan 2014 #2

Paulie

(8,462 posts)
1. Not that I ever heard before.
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 11:55 PM
Jan 2014

But then we generally don't say please revert, do the needful or on the anvil either.

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