0 to delay something until a later time:
My bank has agreed to defer the repayments on my loan.
[ + -ing verb ] Can we defer making a decision until next week?
All of this literature stresses the need for households to defer their individual interests to improve forest productivity and enhance the long-term community interest.
A lack of data has forced this research to defer any examination of the types of investments into which funds are placed.
The culture of medical education requires that physicians in training defer to supervising physician on a variety of issues, including clinical judgment and ethical standards.
Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way.
The singular would give way to the regular, and curiosity would defer to utility.
We defer modeling the behavior of such households to future research.
Indeed, serious disruption of the musical texture is unusual: melismas have the power to defer a cadence, sometimes considerably, but they can never prevent one.
As explained previously, we defer consideration of this issue to further research.
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