defer

Apprehensive Adam looks upon her with a head-scratching degree of uneasy anticipation, an apple clutched low in his hand, deferring to the forbidden fruit confidently raised in hers.

Conforto’s contract with the Dodgers includes an $8.5-million signing bonus and some deferred money, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

The president may also rescind or defer spending but, again, only with congressional approval.

I’d thought about the arrival of this moment many times before, but I managed to somehow always defer it in my mind.

Sentencing of the the ex-Scotland international for abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years has been deferred until January.