defer
/dɪˈfɝ/ verbo C1En español: diferir
- To delay or postpone. · We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.
- to postpone induction into military service.
- 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).
- To delay, to wait.
He/she/it defers · Pasado deferred · Participio pasado deferred · Forma en -ing deferring
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- defer
- He/she/it
- defers
- Pasado
- deferred
- Participio pasado
- deferred
- Forma en -ing
- deferring
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
De la biblioteca
She couldn’t be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made, so all questions and explanations might as well be deferred until he was safely back at Green Gables.
Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.
“Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again?
If you and Miss Bennet will defer yours till I am out of the room, I shall be very thankful; and then you may say whatever you like of me.”
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