verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
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I don't want to be positioned as some one who they have to defer to.
■ NOUN
decision
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He unsuccessfully proposed a decision be deferred to allow further consultation with the disabled.
tax
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Then he suggested maybe tax cuts could be deferred until a balanced budget could be agreed to.
■ VERB
decide
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Insiders may decide to defer public disclosure so that they may first build up a position in the relevant shares.
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For these reasons, the Council has decided to defer the matter for three years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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College loan payments are deferred until students finish their degrees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers.
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For those voters' sakes, important decisions like this one should be deferred.
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He deferred admission to Stanford medical school and set about taking three seconds off his 200 time.
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He expected to die, but the expectation was always of something remote, deferred.
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Macmillan then deployed a favourite tactic: he deferred the final decision till a later meeting of the Cabinet.
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That, his day's toil having been deferred, he wanders through unfamiliar woods with unsure footsteps.
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The punishment was deferred until after her baby was born.
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With words he defers, with a football he crushes and wrecks.