defer
Meaning
- To delay or postpone.
- To delay or postpone.
- 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).
- To delay, to wait.
Synonyms
yield
time required
defer to
fall behind with
go backward
negociate
leave as it is
backening
be different
conform to
Frequency
Hyphenated as
de‧fer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɪˈfɜː(ɹ)/
Etymology
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.
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