defer
dih-FURverbMeaning to put off until later; also, to give way to another’s judgment
Memory hook de-FER: carry it FAR off, to later. Too busy today, Ada pushes the big cleanup box far off down the hall and writes “next week” on the calendar: she defers it.
The club agreed to defer the vote until everyone could attend.
In context Though he had strong opinions about the garden, Kai chose to defer to his grandmother, who had grown tomatoes for fifty years and knew far more than he did.
Similar postpone, put off, delay, yield
Opposite advance, expedite
Two Latin verbs met in this word: differre, “to put off,” and deferre, “to carry down, to yield.”