defer implies a voluntary yielding or submitting out of respect or reverence for or deference and affection toward another.

defer action/a decision The committee decided to defer a decision on the takeover bid until a later date. defer doing sth The scheme enables investors to defer paying taxes on the gain. …

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 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.

To defer is to decide to do something at a more convenient time in the future; it often suggests avoidance: to defer making a payment. delay is sometimes equivalent to defer, but it usu. suggests a hindrance or dilatory tactic: Completion of the work was deferred by bad weather.

DEFER meaning: 1 : to choose to do (something) at a later time; 2 : to allow (someone else) to decide or choose something

Definition of defer verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. defer (doing) something to delay something until a later time synonym put off. The department deferred the decision for six months. She had applied for deferred admission to college. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

defer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. (Note: See defering as well.) verb: (transitive) To delay or postpone. verb: (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.

To give in to the wish or judgment of another, as in showing respect; yield with courtesy (to) To commit or entrust to another. The principal deferred the decision to the school board. To postpone the induction of (one eligible for the military draft). From Old French differer, from Latin differre.

DEFER definition: to arrange for something to happen at a later time: . Learn more.