defer
IPA: dɪfˈɝ
verb
- (transitive) To delay or postpone
- (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
- (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
- (transitive, intransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
Advertisement
Examples of "defer" in Sentences
- Captain Sears did defer, that is he seldom opposed.
- To defer from the steven King inflection it should be referenced as a Viral of vampires.
- Now you may wonder why it's called defer and lazyload and I talked about not loading at all.
- One alternative: defer social security -- it also increases 8% for every year you defer, which is higher than most investments pay.
- Although he said he wanted to come back for a final year in 2010, Bowden chose to call it a career after reviewing the parameters the school sought to have him work within next year -- namely defer much of his responsibility to coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher.
Related Links
synonyms for deferAdvertisement
Advertisement