defer
英検準1級延期する・敬意を払って従う
意味
- …を延ばす,延期する(postpone)
- 《defer to+名》(人・希望・意見などに)従う
例文
The payment will be deferred for two years.
その支払いは２年間繰り延べられる。
Got cancelled at the last minute. 'Deferred to next week'.
ドタキャンくらったの。来週に持ち越しだって。
The contract provides for a deferred payment over three years.
契約では３年の延べ払いということになっている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differō. Doublet of differ and dilate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, relate and refer as well as prelate and prefer among others.