I defer to your judgement.
Source: tatoeba (257120)
Defer
//dɪˈfɜː//
Synonyms for "defer" (114 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (57)
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6 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
94 translations across 25 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
3 entries- отлагам verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- отсрочвам verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- отстъпвам verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
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
4 entries- conformeren verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- dralen verb ((intransitive) to delay)
- onderwerpen verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- talmen verb ((intransitive) to delay)
Finnish
4 entries- lykätä verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- mukautua verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- myöhentää verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- myöntyä verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
French
4 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)
- s'en remettre verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
German
4 entries- abwarten verb ((intransitive) to delay)
- 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)
Hungarian
2 entries- elhalaszt verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- enged (valaminek) verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
Ido
1 entries- deferencar verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
Japanese
1 entries- 延期する verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Middle English
2 entries- differren verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- differren verb ((intransitive) to delay)
Māori
3 entries- tinaku verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- whakamiramira verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- 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)
Persian
1 entries- تمکین کردن verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
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
3 entries- adiar verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- deferir verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- 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)
Slovak
1 entries- podvoliť sa verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
Spanish
2 entries- deferir verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- diferir verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
Swedish
2 entries- hänskjuta verb (to submit to the opinion or desire of another)
- 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)
- gecikmek verb ((intransitive) to delay)
- geciktirmek verb ((transitive) to delay — see also delay, postpone, put off)
- tehir etmek 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)
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