How to pronounce “defer”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To delay or postpone.
• (American football) 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).
• (intransitive) To delay, to wait.

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