reporté

Reporté is the past participle of the French verb reporter, meaning to postpone or to reschedule. It also functions as an adjective meaning "postponed" or "delayed." In modern French, it is commonly used to indicate that an event, a deadline, or a document has been moved to a later date.

Grammatical notes: Reporté agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (reporté, reportée, reportés, reportées). It appears in compound tenses with the auxiliary avoir, for example, j'ai reporté la réunion (I postponed the meeting). As an adjective, it can describe something that has already been postponed, as in une date reportée (a postponed date).

Usage and contexts: The term is frequent in administrative, organizational, and logistical contexts—such as meetings, exams, flights, matches, or publication deadlines. It can also appear in headlines or official announcements, where a date change is indicated with "reporté" or "reportée." The opposite concept is "avancé" (advanced, moved to an earlier date), though this is less common in everyday usage than postponement.

Related terms: The verb reporter differs in meaning from the noun reporter (a journalist) in French, which is a distinct word with different etymology. The noun reportage refers to the act or result of reporting in journalism or to a detailed report.

Etymology: Reporter derives from re- (back, again) + porter (to carry), with the sense of carrying a date backward to a later time.