The phrase "asked to defer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requested to postpone or delay a decision, action, or event.
Example: "The committee was asked to defer their decision until the next meeting."
Alternatives: "requested to postpone" or "instructed to delay".
Feeling that he needed a break, he asked to defer his admission for a year.
Chris Miller from VicRoads said Melburnians were being asked to defer travel around the CBD.
During brainstorming, for example, people are asked to defer judgment and to be curious.
Once vetted and trained, the Syrian rebels are being asked to defer their primary goal of ousting Assad for the American goal of ousting Isis.
Thus, this simply is not a case in which a court is asked to defer to "nothing more than an agency's convenient litigating position". Id., at 213, 109 S.Ct., at 474.
Ms. Levin, who testified before the council's committee on cultural affairs, said that her department had been asked to defer or reduce its capital budget of $862 million by $263 million over the next five years.
By asking to defer the remaining year of her sentence until after her son, Filip, is 14, Ms. Alyokhina left herself vulnerable.
A candidate who has been offered first-year admission may ask to defer enrollment for a year to work, travel, complete mandatory military service or pursue a special opportunity.
Students who have already applied for admission, who now may be waiting to hear where they got in, can simply ask to defer for a year, something college officials say they usually accommodate.
This policy does not just operate with B2B customers; customers in the shop can also ask to defer payment for goods.
Rothstein asks to defer payment until the next day.
