I defer to your judgement.
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Defer
/dɪˈfɜː/
Synonyms for "defer" (202 found)
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Closest matches (41)
Strong matches (60)
Noun(9 words)
Verb(22 words)
demurreddillydallydismiss a proposalembargoedfallowedgive inhesitatehesitateshold overkneelskneltkowtowedkowtowslallygaggedlollygaggedparkedpendedpostponedpostponesprocrastinate
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Related words (101)
Verb(30 words)
proroguepuntedpussyfootput offput overrefrainedrelegateremitretardedset backshelveshelvedsidesteppedsnoozedstallstayedsubmitsuspendedsuspendstable
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Noun(33 words)
Adjective(4 words)
Related word relations
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More general
8 entriesMore specific
4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesdefer a decisiondefer a taskdefer judgmentdefer paymentdefer to authoritydefer until tomorrow
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀναβάλλω verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Armenian
1 entries- տարկետել verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Bulgarian
2 entries- отлагам verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- отсрочвам verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 延緩 /延缓 verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Czech
4 entries- oddalovat verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- oddálit verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- odkládat verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- odložit verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Dutch
1 entries- uitstellen verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Finnish
2 entries- lykätä verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- myöhentää verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
French
3 entries- différer verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- remettre verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- reporter verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
German
4 entries- aufheben verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- aufschieben verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- aussetzen verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- den Vortritt lassen verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Hungarian
1 entries- elhalaszt verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Japanese
1 entries- 延期する verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Middle English
1 entries- differren verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Māori
2 entries- tinaku verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- whakatārewa verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صالمق verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Polish
4 entries- odkładać verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- odraczać verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- odroczyć verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- odłożyć verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Portuguese
2 entries- adiar verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- pospor verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Russian
4 entries- откла́дывать verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- отложи́ть verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- отсро́чивать verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- отсро́чить verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- odgoditi verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- одгодити verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Spanish
1 entries- diferir verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Swedish
1 entries- skjuta upp verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Turkish
4 entries- bekletmek verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- geciktirmek verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- tehir etmek verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- yubatmak verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Ukrainian
4 entries- відкла́сти verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- відклада́ти verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- відстро́чити verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- відстро́чувати verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Suppose then that we defer the marriage till the autumn.
Source: tatoeba (6213246)
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.
Source: tatoeba (9938036)
I could not defer my job to no one.
Source: tatoeba (10161904)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.