Antonyms for defer
dɪˈfɜrde·fer

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1. defer

   To protract is to cause to occupy a longer time than is usual, expected, or desirable. We defer a negotiation which we are slow to enter upon; we protract a negotiation which we are slow to conclude; delay may be used of any stage in the proceedings; we may delay a person as well as an action, but defer and protract are not used of persons. Elongate is not used of actions or abstractions, but only of material objects or extension in space; protract is very rarely used of concrete objects or extension in space; we elongate a line, protract a discussion. Protract has usually an unfavorable sense, implying that the matter referred to is already unduly long, or would be so if longer continued; continue is neutral, applying equally to the desirable or the undesirable. Postpone implies a definite intention to resume, as defer also does, though less decidedly; both are often used with some definite limitation of time; as, to postpone till, until, or to a certain day or hour. One may defer, delay, or postpone a matter intelligently and for good reason; he procrastinates through indolence and irresolution. Compare HINDER.

   Antonyms:
   abbreviate, abridge, conclude, contract, curtail, hasten, hurry, limit, reduce, shorten

   Synonyms:
   continue, delay, draw out, elongate, extend, lengthen, postpone, procrastinate, prolong, protract

   Preposition:
   To protract a speech by verbosity, through an unreasonable time, to, till, or until a late hour.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. defer

   Antonyms:
   expedite, hasten, quicken, press, urge, hurry, overdrive, despatch

   Synonyms:
   delay, postpone, waive, adjourn, prorogue, put off, retard, procrastinate, protract, hinder, prolong

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1. postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put offverb

   hold back to a later time

   "let's postpone the exam"

   Synonyms:
   put back, put over, elude, circumvent, set back, turn off, confuse, sidestep, dishearten, remand, give in, remit, parry, dodge, bow, send back, tabulate, accede, flurry, prorogue, hedge, put off, evade, tabularise, table, tabularize, carry over, postpone, duck, slacken, shelve, hold over, disconcert, knock back, get across, fudge, submit, skirt

2. submit, bow, defer, accede, give inverb

   yield to another's wish or opinion

   "The government bowed to the military pressure"

   Synonyms:
   put over, set back, put forward, buckle under, crouch, pass on, relegate, put in, resign, take, bow, give in, state, subject, remit, acquiesce, reconcile, accede, prorogue, assent, knuckle under, put off, bend, render, table, present, yield, postpone, posit, shelve, enter, hold over, succumb, bow down, stoop, submit

How to use defer in a sentence?

1. Lopez Obrador:

   I welcome that he has taken our opinion into account. ... It was a very good decision today to defer the designation.

2. President Donald Trump said Wednesday:

   Using emergency authority, I will be instructing the Treasury Department to defer tax payments without interest or penalties for certain individuals and businesses negatively impacted.

3. Donald Trump:

   I don't have anything to say, i'll defer to House Intelligence on particular statements and the like. I don't have anything else to say about the Democrats' impeachment proceeding. If somebody else has a substantive question about something that the world cares deeply about, I'm happy to take it.

4. Justin Sherlock:

   I'm just going to defer all my investment.

5. President Joko Widodo:

   I have decided that we will not burden the state budget, and there will be no guarantee from the government, so I defer to the SOEs (ministry).

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