Defer

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To render or offer. [Obs.] Worship deferred to the Virgin. Brevint.

2. To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to. Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland. Bacon.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to. The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced. Bancroft.