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Free sign upThe phrase "deferred by" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to indicate a delay in a situation or a process. For example, "The meeting was deferred by a week due to bad weather."
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"I'd been deferred by Yale.
All of those are being deferred by the airline.
But full contemplation of this phenomenon was deferred by an undulating mass of cheerleader tweens.
Normally, it comes a year after budget payments, but with the surcharge deferred by nine months.
For months, decisions on a number of festering problem areas have been deferred by administration officials until after the election.
A decision over the application was last month deferred by councillors following a legal challenge from local resident Bill McKinnon.
And the portions of income deferred by these groups were within a few percentage points of one another.
But this process, scheduled for this year, has been deferred by the government until after the end of this parliament.
But the Chinese judgment on Mao's revolution has been complicated and deferred by the longevity of the Communist regime and the country's extraordinary economic successes.
But requests for gas masks and other protective equipment have been deferred by America and the EU, wary that help will imply political recognition.
Behind the mask of pseudonyms, they compared BCG to Enron and asked if anyone else had had their start date deferred by Accenture for the third time.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com