0 to delay something until a later time: --
[ + -ing verb ] Can we defer making a decision until next week?
My bank has agreed to defer the repayments on my loan.
We defer the discussion of these cases to section 4.7, where we will consider a number of other problems as well.
Professions might have either more or less autonomy, depending on the extent to which the courts are willing to defer to the profession.
It may be appropriate to defer more definitive palliation in some patients until an age when objective measures of functional capacity can be performed.
The definitive repair is best deferred for several years.
For the moment, however, we defer matters of physical interpretation and proceed formally.
Yet, even when one view surfaces as authoritative, individual rabbis or layman will often defer to their local authority, whose position is considered decisive.
Because linguistic reference is deferred, gesture and bodily comportment take on additional weight.
As explained previously, we defer consideration of this issue to further research.
