Associations to the word «Defer»
Noun
Wiktionary
DEFER, verb. (transitive) To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
DEFER, verb. (American football) 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).
DEFER, verb. (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
DEFER, verb. (legal) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
DEFER, verb. To render, to offer.
Dictionary definition
DEFER, verb. Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam".
DEFER, verb. Yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.