All 3 Uses of
defer
in
Tuesdays with Morrie
- Often he defers to their words,
Chpt 6 *defers = submits
- One year, they say, during the Vietnam War, Morrie gave all his male students A's to help them keep their student deferments.†
Chpt 5
- When the professors learned that students who did not maintain a certain grade point average could lose their deferments and be drafted, they decided not to give any grades.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(defer as in: deferred the decision) delay or postpone (hold off until a later time)
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(2)
(defer as in: deferred to her wishes) submit or yield (typically to another person's opinion because of respect for that person or their knowledge)