The phrase "avoid or defer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the decision to not engage in an action immediately or to postpone it for a later time.
Example: "In order to manage our resources effectively, we may need to avoid or defer certain projects until next quarter."
Alternatives: "postpone or delay" or "evade or postpone".
His dishonesty is simply a bad habit that he has gotten into in order to avoid or defer conflict with his parents.
Researchers have long been intrigued as to whether this ability to avoid, or defer, gratification is related to outcomes in life.
Some may try to avoid or defer it.
Maintenance of systemic right ventricular function is crucial for long-term survival, and interventions that improve ventricular function and avoid or defer transplantation in patients with HLHS are urgently needed.
3 Despite the espoused potential of telehealth and telecare technologies to enable people to 'age in place' (ie, avoid or defer institutional care in later life and remain active participants in society), benefits achieved to date have been modest.
The conservatives have always seen a plebiscite as a means of avoiding or deferring marriage equality rather than enabling it.
It also contains an odd provision that would outlaw patenting "any strategy for reducing, avoiding or deferring" federal, state or local taxes.
The Senate bill, in particular, would index a variety of 401(k) and other retirement savings plans for inflation, allowing the wealthy to put more money away while avoiding or deferring taxes.
In addition to that, the notion that acute HIV-1 infection is generally associated with oligoclonal viral quasispecies of low phylogenetic diversity [47], [48], led to the hypothesis that by early treatment viral escape to specific HIV-1 antibody- and cytotoxic T-cell responses may be avoided or deferred resulting in clinical benefit and/or virological control of the virus.
The US gets to avoid, or at least defer, explicit preferential treatment for the Kurds, since protecting US forces is unambiguously a US necessity.
Estate and Gift Taxes Same-sex married couples will also avoid, or at least defer, paying federal estate taxes because spouses can transfer money and property to each other — both during their lives and after death — without federal tax consequences.
