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deferred the decision
Definition
delay or postpone (hold off until a later time)
- The Clifton scheme had been deferred,Chapter 13 (2% in)
deferred = postponed (put off until another time)
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- The letter, whence sprang all this felicity, was short, containing little more than this assurance of success; and every particular was deferred till James could write again.Chapter 15 (67% in)
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