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defer

verb transitive
To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design. When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs 13:12.

defer

To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.