Difference between Defer and Postpone

DEFER vs POSTPONE: VERB

Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion
To delay, or postpone, especially to postpone induction into military service.
To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
Yield to another's wish or opinion
Hold back to a later time

To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
To put off; to delay to act; to wait.

To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
To render or offer.
To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

To postpose.
To cause or arrange for (an event) to take place at a time later than the time at which it was originally supposed to happen. : defer.
To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn.
To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.

To wait; delay; procrastinate.
To delay; put off; postpone to a future time: as, to defer the execution of a design.
To yield to another's opinion; submit in opinion: with to.
To cause to wait; remand; put off: applied to persons.
To offer; render; assign: as, to defer the command of an army.
To refer; leave to another's judgment and determination

To put off; defer to a future or later time; delay.
To set below (something else) in value or importance; rate as less important or inferior.
Synonyms To adjourn, procrastinate, stave off.

Withhold, Delay, Suspend, Hold over, Give in, Set back, Put over, Table, Put off, Bow, Remit, Submit, Accede, Shelve, Postpone

Wait, Adjourn, Suspend, Delayed, Delaying, Delay, Reschedule, Set back, Put over, Hold over, Remit, Table, Put off, Shelve, Defer

Dismiss, Wait, Adjourn, Reschedule, Withhold, Delay, Suspend, Put over, Give in, Table, Put off, Remit, Submit, Accede, Shelve

Procrastinate, Prolong, Wait, Adjourn, Suspend, Delayed, Delaying, Delay, Reschedule, Put over, Remit, Table, Put off, Shelve, Defer

Suppose your company decides to defer the tax.
It is not possible to defer your scholarship.
Government to defer increases in S Pass and.
Requiring that civil activities defer to social ethics.
How Often Do Courts Defer to Agency Interpretations?
Steele, I defer to the Department of Justice.
If the board decides to defer parole, the inmate may be able to request a reconsideration of the decision to defer release.
Thus, an employer may not defer any tax payment of taxes if it does not defer collecting those taxes from employees.
Fix driver to defer on clk_get defer The new SCMI clock protocol driver does not get probed that early in boot.
If runners choose to defer, the products will defer also.

Nokl persuade Beck to postpone further Polish mobilization.
Check the weather forecast, and postpone if necessary.
Supreme Court orders to postpone final year examination.
Third Party Claim seeking to postpone the sale.
Vienna which I could in no way postpone.
Alternatively, it could postpone the deadline for stabilization.
We sadly had to postpone our wedding date.
You can choose to postpone a lesser amount of rates than the full amount that you would be entitled to postpone under the policy.
TO POSTPONE AVISITUnder certain circumstances, a program may request to postpone a scheduled visit.
Fixed: Task show waiting to run on a postpone, now show Suspended with the postpone reason.