Defer

//dɪˈfɜː//

"Defer" in a Sentence (17 examples)

I defer to your judgement.

Suppose then that we defer the marriage till the autumn.

There's a sense in which doing good for our neighbor is really healthy, not just for our neighbor, but for ourselves as well, and we lose, in many ways, the training ground of how to be good citizens when we lose that or when we defer the problem to somebody else.

I could not defer my job to no one.

I don't want to defer your wishes.

I'll defer to your expertise.

I'll defer to your judgment.

Alternatively, they say, OPEC could defer a decision altogether and review policy again at a special meeting in January.

I defer to no one in my admiration for these heroes.

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

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Deferre the ſpoile of the Citie vntill night:

My journey to Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.

God […] will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name

Hereupon the commissioners […] deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.

"Defer/Defer/To the Lord High Executioner."

"Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.

worship deferred to the Virgin

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