to defer
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- verb
- /dɪˈfɜr/
- Specialized
:
posponer la ejecución
- Oftentimes, seeking to avoid lengthy arguments, teams defer creating style guides under the guise of not wanting to "discourage innovation and expression."
Examples
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Being a slow adopter means that you defer the initial costs to increase security, but if this particular risk triggers, it’s likely to be more expensive for slow adopters; and if the worst happens, it could shut your business down due to expense or reputation damage.
Blog text (26) -
Fortunately, Kuehni defers the detailed model descriptions until after he has defined tristimulus values.
Academic text (2003) -
Clearly, PG&E is happy to defer recycling in order to get distributed storage into their system at a low cost.
Blog text (5) -
To avoid repetition, I defer my discussion of a control in the method of agreement and the conditions that it must satisfy until the next section.
Academic text (2016) -
It defers the source of the text to a source that is itself fragmented and constructed out of multiplicity.
Academic text (2000) -
It meant they were constitutionally unhappy, dissatisfied with the film, unable to accept direct pleasures or to defer random needs.
Fiction book (1999) -
An implementation of define-verbs can defer the work of handling an individual verb to a define-one-verb macro, which uses define-syntax and syntax-rules as shown in Figure 6.
Academic text (2012) -
Racket macros can implement languages with static checks, and macros can even implement language extensions that perform static checks within a base language that defers similar checks to runtime.
Academic text (2012) -
The narrative which winds its way through the novel, a structure that in its most traditional form would be progressive and sequential, is profoundly disrupted by these abrupt literary castlings which subvert the narrative and defer meaning and reference back into the text.
Academic text (2000) -
In programming, you can use the defer function to ensure that code runs only after the current process is complete.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word defer in programming keeps the same idea of 'delay' and comes from the Latin ferre 'to carry', as in transfer. A helpful image is 'carrying' a small action to the end of a function, so the deferred code runs later to clean up or close things.