deferred

• delayed
• detained
• dilatory
• extended
• held over
• held up
• hesitated
• laid over
• lengthened
• paused
• postponed
• prolonged
• protracted
• put off
• put over
• remitted
• retarded
• shelved
• slow
• slowed
• sluggish
• stayed
• suspended
• tardy
• waited

• acted
• afoot
• did
• fast
• hit-and-run
• immediate
• instant
• instantaneous
• prompt
• quick
• rapid
• speedy
• split-second
• straightaway
• summary
• swift
• under way
• under weigh

• verb
  1. To delay or postpone.
  2. After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
  3. To delay, to wait.
  4. To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
  5. To render, to offer.
• noun
  1. A deferred bond.
  2. An oath or affirmation; a vow.
  3. A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
  4. Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
  5. A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
  6. Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• adjective
  1. Delayed; put off till later.
  2. Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
  3. Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes and income, either as an asset or liability.

• She deferred her university admission to travel abroad for a year.
• The payment was deferred until the end of the fiscal year.
• He deferred to his mentor’s advice before making a final decision.
• Because of the crisis, the government deferred tax collection.
• They deferred the announcement to allow for further consultation.

said uncle

• acquiesced
• blinked
• bowed
• budged
• capitulated
• conceded
• deferred
• gave in
• knuckled under
• quit
• quitted
• relented
• submitted
• succumbed
• surrendered
• threw in the sponge
• threw in the towel
• yielded

tabled

ignored

yielded

halted

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