(transitive) To delay or postpone / (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.

(transitive, intransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority. / To render, to offer.

Great respect. / The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.

simple past tense and past participle of defer

Delayed; put off till later. / Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.

(programming) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”) / (finance) A deferred bond.

Showing deference; deferential. / (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.

(anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one. / (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.

plural of deference

plural of deferment