defer
verb (formal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they defer | |
| he / she / it defers | |
| past simple deferred | |
| past participle deferred | |
| -ing form deferring |
- defer (doing) something
to delay something until a later time 推迟；延缓；展期 The department deferred the decision for six months. 这个部门推迟了六个月才作决定。 She had applied for deferred admission to college. 她已申请延期入学。
Extra ExamplesSentence was deferred for six months. 宣判推迟了 6 个月。 The decision has been deferred indefinitely. 作出决定的时间被无限期推迟。 We agreed to defer discussion of these issues until the next meeting. 我们同意把这些问题推迟到下次会议讨论。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- indefinitely
- endlessly
- agree to
- decide to
- for
- pending
- till
- …
Word Originverb late Middle English (also in the sense ‘put on one side’): from Old French differer ‘defer or differ’, from Latin differre, from dis- ‘apart’ + ferre ‘bring, carry’. Compare with differ. defer to somebody/something. late Middle English: from Old French deferer, from Latin deferre ‘carry away, refer (a matter)’, from de- ‘away from’ + ferre ‘bring, carry’.