Word Finder - deferring

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To delay or postpone

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We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.

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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).

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To delay, to wait.

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To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.

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To render, to offer.

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Deferral

Fortunately, you can avoid some of the guesswork by deferring to experts in the field.

Deferring his criticism of the significance of self and object, Hume yet makes use of both to aid his explanation of the belief attaching to reality.

The fathers, however, of the 4th century emphasized already the danger of deferring the rite until men fall into mortal sickness, when they may be unconscious or paralysed or otherwise unable to profess their faith and repentance, or to swallow the viaticum.

For a moment the idea was entertained of giving way to the opposition and deferring a decision in the matter, or, in the manner of the fathers in the Council of Trent, adjourning it to the Greek kalends.

Bismarck in this crisis by deferring to the emperor in appearance avoided the danger, but he knew that he had been deceived, and the cordial understanding was never renewed.

In his civil administration he followed out his own ideas without deferring to the nobles or the Church, and the opposition which he encountered from these quarters went far to paralyse his attempts at reform.

Not a few homilies of that age survive, denouncing the deferring of baptism, and urging on parents the duty of initiating their young children.

The rhythmical and artistic form of the sentence is sacrificed to a passion for emphasis that delights in deferring the point to the close of the period.

This means that the government subsidizes the interest while students are attending school or deferring payment, so they do not have to pay any interest until they start making payments.

It allows you to save for retirement while deferring income tax on the money placed into your account.

The reason for deferring immunization is to avoid superimposing a reaction to the vaccine on the underlying illness or attributing symptoms of the underlying illness to the vaccine by mistake.

In general, you will purchase your jeans in the same size that you wore prior to getting pregnant; however, you will find some maternity jeans manufacturers do not follow normal sizing, deferring to small, medium, and large sizes instead.

Deferring taxes on the amount you invest into your retirement plan is a huge benefit of tax sheltered annuities.

Though it was forthwith printed in the course of the year 1642, he was content to circulate a limited number of copies privately 1; and when he found his work received with applause (it was praised even by Descartes), he seems to have taken this recognition of his philosophical achievement as an additional reason for deferring publication till the earlier works of the system were completed.

During the peace negotiations, when Kiamil, as Grand Vizier, took the wise course of deferring to the wishes of the British, Enver with his friends arrived in front of the Sublime Porte, shot the War Minister, Nazim Pasha, turned out Kiamil, forced himself upon the Sultan, and in collusion with the Young Turk Committee filled all the offices with Young Turks.

Granted, he was Death, and she was offering a partnership running the underworld instead of deferring to him in his role in charge of the underworld.

Deferring the detailed discussion of cyclic or ringed hydrocarbons, a correlation of the various types or classes of compounds which may be derived from hydrocarbon nuclei will now be given.

Michel de l'HOpital, the chancellor, who opened the assembly, was an advocate of toleration; he deprecated the abusive use of the terms " Lutherans," " Papists " and " Huguenots," and advocated deferring all action until a council should have been called.

Rost related be true, namely that they called themselves A postolici, and went barefooted healing the sick, they must have at least absorbed into themselves a sect of whom we hear in the 12th century in the north of Europe as deferring baptism to the age of 30, and rejecting oaths, prayers for the dead, relics and invocation of saints.

He was not meditating, but only deferring the moment of making the effort to lift those legs up and turn over on the bed.