"defer the task" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to postpone or delay an activity or job until a later time. For example: "I can't finish the report by the deadline, so I'll need to defer the task to next week."
Deferring the task of dealing with the coming emergency will only make that emergency worse.
Mostly the writers collected herein, very few of whom have met the candidate in person, choose to confront far obscurer texts than one another's recent work, perhaps because doing so helps them defer the difficult task of fixing their subject on the page.
Defer income and you defer the tax bill on it.
"Some states are lowering the passing scores, they're redefining schools in need of improvement and they're deferring the hard task of achievement-boosting into the distant future," said Chester E. Finn Jr., a former assistant secretary of education who supports the law's goal of raising standards.
Since also the creation of the expressions for the integrals of the Dyson Schwinger equations needs to be automated, we defer this task to a Mathematica notebook.
And now many working parents, and even nonworking parents, defer this task to baby sitters so that the parents never have to deal with cranky moms and dads.
So, should coaches defer the opening kickoff?
But higher oil prices defer the day of reckoning.
Those who led the 2006 effort to expand coverage readily acknowledge that they deferred the more daunting task of cost control for another day.
Instead of determining if the agency's interpretation was reasonable and then deferring, the Court took on the task of resolving the ambiguity itself.
