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Adjective deferred has 1 sense
  1. deferred, postponed - put off to later; "requested a deferred payment"; "our postponed trip"
    Antonym: expedited (indirect, via delayed)
,Verb defer has 2 senses
  1. postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
    --1 is one way to delay
    Derived forms: noun deferment1, noun deferral2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. submit, bow, defer, accede, give in - submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
    --2 is one way to yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under
    Derived form: noun deference2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s to somebody
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