defer

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defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)

  1. To delay, or postpone, especially to postpone induction into military service.
    • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 3, Frankenstein[1]:
      My departure for Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.
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defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)

  1. (law) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
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dēfer

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēferō
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