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• v  hold back to a later time
• v  yield to another's wish or opinion

• Despite this philosophy, Koolhaas, 63, is not one of those architects much concerned with producing buildings that defer visually to their surroundings.
• All soldiers are created equal; race and class defer to rank and merit.
• These patients were compared with those who decided to defer therapy until their counts dipped below 350 cells per cubic mm, the level at which current guidelines recommend .

• postpone
• prorogue
• hold over
• put over
• table
• shelve
• set back
• remit
• put off
• submit
• bow
• accede
• give in

News & Articles

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• FASB Indefinitely Defers Certain Disclosures for Nonpublic Employee Benefit Plans
  The Financial Accounting Standards Board today voted to indefinitely defer certain disclosures about investments held by a nonpublic employee benefit plan in its plan sponsor’s own nonpublic equity securities.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• FASB Defers Employee Benefit Plan Disclosure Requirement
  The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to indefinitely defer certain disclosures about investments held by a nonpublic employee benefit plan in its plan sponsor's own nonpublic equity securities.
  June 12, 2013 - Accounting Today
• Chattanooga City Council votes to defer approval of fire hall in East Lake
  The Chattanooga City Council voted 9-0 tonight to defer for a week approving almost $1.5 million to build a new fire hall in East Lake.
  June 11, 2013 - Chattanooga Times Free Press

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in guardian.co.uk
  If we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it we risk sinking into another crisis down the road,Obama warned. "We cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the...
• John Warner in FOXNews
  In an ongoing operation, you've got to defer to the commander in chief,said Warner, R-Va.
• Venus Williams in New York Daily News
  I always defer,Venus said. "She picks first. It makes me happy."