Usually means: Postpones or delays action temporarily.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. defers: Merriam-Webster
  2. defers, defers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defers: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defers: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defers, defers: Wordnik
  6. defers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defers: Wiktionary
  8. defers: Dictionary.com
  9. defers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Defers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. defers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defers: Legal dictionary

(Note: See defer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defer)

verb:  (transitive) To delay or postpone.
verb:  (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
verb:  (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
verb:  (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
verb:  To render, to offer.
▸ Also see defer


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