Definition 1: To advance a date or appointment.
[@more@]Usage 1: Usage of this term seems to be rising in the medical profession, especially in Canada, and it has been in wide usage in India for 50 years.
Suggested usage: The new usage goes something like this: "We don't have any appointments for a later date; could we prepone your present appointment a week?" meaning move it forward a week. We need to find uses for this word to launch it properly. "Could we prepone lunch? I don't think I can wait until 12." Eventually people will be saying things like, "The nursery wasn't ready because the baby preponed itself two weeks," don't you think?
Etymology: yourDictionary is happy to announce the birth of a new word, brought to our attention by C. R. Smith of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. It is derived from English's bottomless pit of Latin lexical constituents, the prefix pre- "before" and ponere "to place, put" by analogy with "postpone."
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