v. 25B6; verb the committee will defer their decision : POSTPONE, put off, delay, hold over/off, put back; shelve, suspend, stay, mothball; N. Amer. put over, table, take a rain check on; informal put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage.
DEFER
Meaning of DEFER in English
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