If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
例句
Customers often defer payment for as long as possible...顧客常常會盡可能地拖延付款。I'm not going to defer decisions just because they are not immediately politically popular.我不會因為它們沒有即刻在政治上受到歡迎就推遲作出這些決定。
VERB
遵從;聽從;順從
If you defer to someone, you accept their opinion or do what they want you to do, even when you do not agree with it yourself, because you respect them or their authority.
例句
Doctors are encouraged to defer to experts.鼓勵醫生聽從專家的意見。