Defer in a sentence as a verb

Tptacek has more experience in these things than me of course, so I'll defer to his thoughts.

The SSD firmware then marks those pages as "free" and will typically defer zeroing them until use.

The problem with the whiteboard design is that you have to defer, "oh, let's see if that works" indefinitely.

You can also defer requests that may block so you can retain full non-blocking support throughout your codebase.

The ones who, by design, want to defer or even avoid VC funding so as to build their ventures on their own timing and on their own terms.

" When I reply that I've done so well over a hundred times in the past couple years, they defer to a supervisor who informs them of my "rights.

You defer your university fees throughout the duration of your studies, apparently no matter how long they last.

What if I plan to do a lot of dynamic updates and I want to defer live-updating because I am doing mass-updates?

This is the moment where you have to implant the habit of asking - not yourself, but an imaginary judge:"If I defer task X, will it become easier later?

However, guaranteeing TCO isn't free in implementation, and in the presence of features like "defer", it becomes non-trivial to understand when it is happening.

"Representing herself in court, Cox had argued..."Coders and bloggers are good at what they do and in those spheres it would generally be a good idea to defer to them for advice, however, in the sphere of law it's generally a good idea to defer to someone with expertise in that field.

Defer definitions

verb

hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"

verb

yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"

See also: submit accede