defer
verb (formal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent 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 synonym put off推遲;延緩;展期 The department deferred the decision for six months. 這個部門推遲了六個月才作決定。 She had applied for deferred admission to college. 她已申請延期入學。
Extra ExamplesSentence was deferred for six months. 宣判推遲了 6 個月。 The decision has been deferred indefinitely. 作出決定的時間被無限期推遲。 We agreed to defer discussion of these issues until the next meeting. 我們同意把這些問題推遲到下次會議討論。
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’.