rimandare

Rimandare is an Italian verb meaning to postpone or defer, and in some contexts also to send back or to remand. The primary everyday use is temporal, indicating that an event, decision, or obligation is pushed to a later time. In legal and administrative language it can mean to remand a case to a lower court or to refer it to trial.

Etymology and meaning variants are tied to the root mandare (to send) with the prefix ri-, forming a sense of sending back or delaying. The term is regular in its conjugation, as a first-conjugation verb ending in -are.

Common usages include rimandare un appuntamento or rimandare un esame to postpone an appointment or an examination; rimandare una decisione to defer a decision; and rimandare a data da destinarsi or rimandare di una settimana to push a plan forward by a particular amount of time. In legal language, expressions such as rimandare al giudice competente or rimandare a giudizio are standard, indicating that a case is referred for trial or sent back for further action.

Conjugation notes: rimandare is a regular -are verb. Present: io rimando, tu rimandi, lui/lei rimanda, noi rimandiamo, voi rimandate, loro rimandano. Other tenses follow standard -are conjugation patterns (ho rimandato, rimandavo, rimanderò, che io rimandi, sia rimandato, ecc.).

See also: posticipare, slittare, ritardare, rinviare. Rimandare shares meaning with these terms but is often preferred for formal or precise contexts, especially in scheduling and legal language.