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   defer

   /dɪˈfəː/

   verb

   • 1. put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone: "they deferred the decision until February"
   • ▪ (of a judge) postpone (a sentence) so that the circumstances or conduct of the defendant can be further assessed: "the judge deferred sentence until 5 April for background reports"
   • ▪ postpone the conscription of (someone): "he was no longer deferred from the draft"

   Word Origin 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 defer2 and differ.

   Derivatives

   • 1. deferrable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

   • F

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

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