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- Dictionarydefer/dɪˈfəː/
verb
- 1. put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone: "they deferred the decision until February"
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to delay something until a later time: defer action/a decision The committee decided to defer a decision on the takeover bid until a later date. defer tax / payment. defer doing sth The scheme enables investors to defer paying taxes on the gain.
The defer having to do with allowing someone else to decide or choose something, or with agreeing to follow someone else’s decision, tradition, etc., (as in “He deferred to his parents’ wishes”) comes from the Latin verb dēferre, meaning “to bring down, convey, transfer, submit.”
Defer means to put off or delay. You can try to defer the inevitable by pushing “snooze” and falling back asleep, but eventually you're going to have to get up. If you're excellent at pushing things to a later date and a master at procrastination, then you already know how to defer.
to delay something until a later time: defer action/a decision The committee decided to defer a decision on the takeover bid until a later date. defer tax / payment. defer doing sth The scheme enables investors to defer paying taxes on the gain.
To defer is to decide to do something later on: to defer making a payment. To delay is sometimes equivalent to defer , but usually it is to act in a dilatory manner and thus lay something aside: to delay one's departure.
Defer definition: to put off (action, consideration, etc.) to a future time. See examples of DEFER used in a sentence.
Definition of defer verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
DEFER definition: to arrange for something to happen at a later time: . Learn more.
To give in to the wish or judgment of another, as in showing respect; yield with courtesy ( to) Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To commit or entrust to another. The principal deferred the decision to the school board. American Heritage. To postpone the induction of (one eligible for the military draft). American Heritage.
To submit to the wish or decision of another, as in recognition of authority. See Synonyms at yield. v.tr. To commit or entrust to another: The principal deferred the decision to the school board.
