| 词汇 | defer |
| 释义 | defer verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈfɜːr/ us /dɪˈfɝː/-rr- to delay something until a later time: 使延期，使延缓，推迟 defer repaymentsMy bank has agreed to defer the repayments on my loan.银行同意让我延缓偿还贷款。 [ + -ing verb ]Can we defer making a decision until next week?我们可以推迟到下周再决定吗？ Synonym postpone Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock inefficiency inefficiently kept kick kick something into the long grassidiom push retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve sit sit on something spin stall Related worddeferment Phrasal verbdefer to someone/something defer | American Dictionarydefer verb[ T ] us/dɪˈfɜr/-rr- to delay something until a later time; to postpone: You can order the furniture now and defer payment until September. Phrasal verbdefer to someone defer | Business Englishdefer verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈfɜːr/us-rr- to delay something until a later time: defer action/a decisionThe committee decided to defer a decision on the takeover bid until a later date. defer tax/payment defer doing sthThe scheme enables investors to defer paying taxes on the gain. defermentnoun[ C or U ]uk /dɪˈfɜːmənt/ us /-ˈfɝː-/(alsodeferral) Cheaper graduate loans are available without the deferment option. Phrasal verbdefer to sb/sth Examples of deferdefer All of this literature stresses the need for households to defer their individual interests to improve forest productivity and enhance the long-term community interest. A lack of data has forced this research to defer any examination of the types of investments into which funds are placed. The culture of medical education requires that physicians in training defer to supervising physician on a variety of issues, including clinical judgment and ethical standards. Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way. The singular would give way to the regular, and curiosity would defer to utility. We defer modeling the behavior of such households to future research. Indeed, serious disruption of the musical texture is unusual: melismas have the power to defer a cadence, sometimes considerably, but they can never prevent one. As explained previously, we defer consideration of this issue to further research. Because linguistic reference is deferred, gesture and bodily comportment take on additional weight. Yet, even when one view surfaces as authoritative, individual rabbis or layman will often defer to their local authority, whose position is considered decisive. For the moment, however, we defer matters of physical interpretation and proceed formally. The definitive repair is best deferred for several years. It may be appropriate to defer more definitive palliation in some patients until an age when objective measures of functional capacity can be performed. Professions might have either more or less autonomy, depending on the extent to which the courts are willing to defer to the profession. We defer the discussion of these cases to section 4.7, where we will consider a number of other problems as well. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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