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deferring

noun as in postponement

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In an email, a Washington County spokesperson deferred questions to the event organizers.

Most of this would mean adjusting creative and deferring short-term spend, but few were overtly canceling their fourth-quarter plans.

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Roberts is skeptical of federal judges intervening in those decisions, but defers when state courts and election boards step in.

The initiative deferred to future city leaders to dictate how the roughly $2 billion it projected to pull in for homelessness would be spent.

Determine the daily or weekly threshold at which you begin producing diminishing returns, and ask your boss for help setting priorities on what you can defer and what you should focus on before you hit that threshold.

Republicans, for the most part, treated Krass gently, deferring to their Democratic colleagues to ask the tough questions.

But in reality, companies just leave their profits in overseas tax havens, deferring taxes indefinitely.

The Romney campaign wooed those voters by deferring to some of their emotions.

After weeks of deferring to Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama got involved in the negotiations in recent days.

It makes a concise public argument for deferring deficit reduction until durable growth resumes.

Alleyn, though deferring to sign a new lease, allowed Burbage to continue in possession of the property at "the old rent of £14."

By the twist of his mouth I saw that he was only deferring a smile.

The way you put it makes me think that she was deferring the marriage till such time as I was gone.

This was a little cheap stoicism, worth deferring satisfaction of curiosity three minutes for.

So he grumbled at the uncongenial task appointed for him and kept deferring it from week to week and from year to year.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deferring, such as: delay, delaying, deferral, deferment, putting off, and procrastination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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