Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To offer; render; assign: as, to
defer the command of an army. - To refer; leave to another's judgment and determination
- To yield to another's opinion; submit in opinion: with to.
- To delay; put off; postpone to a future time: as, to
defer the execution of a design. - To cause to wait; remand; put off: applied to persons.
- To wait; delay; procrastinate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
- transitive verb To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
- intransitive verb To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with
to . - transitive verb obsolete To render or offer.
- transitive verb To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with
to .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
delay , orpostpone , especially to postponeinduction into military service. - verb law To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb yield to another's wish or opinion
- verb hold back to a later time
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To defer from the steven King inflection it should be referenced as a Viral of vampires.
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Captain Sears did defer, that is he seldom opposed.
Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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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.
ESPNsoccernet 2009
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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.
ESPNsoccernet 2009
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Now you may wonder why it's called defer and lazyload and I talked about not loading at all.
Planet Python 2009
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One alternative: defer social security -- it also increases 8% for every year you defer, which is higher than most investments pay.
NBC3 - Local News 2009
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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.
ESPNsoccernet 2009
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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.
ESPNsoccernet 2009
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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.
ESPNsoccernet 2009
oroboros commented on the word defer
Refed in reverse.
November 2, 2007