| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To postpone, adjourn, procrastinate, temporize or delay.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To deviate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To differ, disagree or vary.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Present participle conjugation of the verb defer.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (defer) | 1. Hold back to a later time.[Wordnet]. 2. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure".[Wordnet]. 3. To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.[Websters]. 4. To put off; to delay to act; to wait.[Websters]. 5. To render or offer.[Websters]. 6. To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.[Websters]. 7. To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: deferring, deferred, defers, deferrer, deferrers, deferringly and deferredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEFERRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFERRING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Delaying; postponing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of defer. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: defer
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Kaylee DeFer | DeFer attended Desert Christian High School and in 2003 left for Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She has made appearances on television and starred in the Nick Cannon movie Underclassman. She will seen in the upcoming Flicka (2006), based on the book My Friend Flicka and starring Tim McGraw. (references) | ||
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