Definitions
1.verbTo delay or postpone"We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts."
2.verbAfter 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).
3.verbTo delay, to wait.
4.verbTo submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
5.verbTo render, to offer.
6.nounA deferred bond.
7.adjectiveDelayed; put off till later."requested a deferred payment"
8.adjectiveYielded to someone else's decision or judgment."The decision was deferred to the regional manager"
9.adjectiveWhose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes and income, either as an asset or liability.
10.nounAn oath or affirmation; a vow"if I make a promise, I always stick to it; he broke his promise"
11.nounA transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use
12.nounReason to expect improvement or success; potential"She shows great promise as an actress."
13.nounA placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation
14.nounBestowal or fulfillment of what is promised