defer

Signification (Anglais)

1. (transitive) To delay or postpone.
2. (common, especially, transitive) To delay or postpone.
3. After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
4. (intransitive) To delay, to wait.

Concepts

différer

ajourner

retarder

reporter

reculer

suspendre

proue

remettre

renvoyer

repousser

respecter

accorder un délai

déférer

admettre

surseoir à

arc

🙇

différent

laisser

maintenir

postposer

Synonymes

postpone

delay

put off

adjourn

procrastinate

shelve

suspend

table

prorogue

submit

remit

carry over

retard

comply

set back

carry forward

yield

put over

hold over

bow

🙇

detain

take up

assign

respite

drag out

reschedule

time required

put aside

prolong

keep

leave off

hinder

accede

lag

give in

differ

deposit

be different

adjust

decelerate

conform to

back up

conform

form

assimilate

adjournment

accommodate

fire

🔥

give way

fall back

Traductions

aufschieben

diferir

aplazar

vertagen

adiar

uitstellen

verzögern

stunden

verschieben

procrastinar

zurückstellen

rinviare

αναβάλλω

differire

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɪˈfɜː(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: differren

In summary

Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differō. Doublet of differ and dilate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, relate and refer as well as prelate and prefer among others.