Definition of "deferring" []

• Present participle of defer. (verb)

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• "Nancy: When transferring influence, begin deferring publicly to the new mentee."
• "In stating that the Court, in deferring to private property rights, will be trashing the environment, Wittes is merely repeating one of the urban legends of the statist left, without a shred of evidence."
• "She was not alone in deferring to Nkotassane's ceramic expertise, for her mother regularly had women from neighboring homesteads dropping in to watch her work and to seek her advice."