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defer to someone

to accept the opinion or judgment of someone else. In the end, you must defer to your boss, because the boss is always right.

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He could do what he liked, with all his cleverness to help him, so long as I should continue to defer to the old tradition of the criminality of those caretakers of the young who minister to superstitions and fears. Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons. My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context Athelstane had this quality at least; and though he had few mental accomplishments or talents to recommend him as a leader, he had still a goodly person, was no coward, had been accustomed to martial exercises, and seemed willing to defer to the advice of counsellors more wise than himself. Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context More results

References in classic literature

He could do what he liked, with all his cleverness to help him, so long as I should continue to defer to the old tradition of the criminality of those caretakers of the young who minister to superstitions and fears.

Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context

Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons.

My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context

Athelstane had this quality at least; and though he had few mental accomplishments or talents to recommend him as a leader, he had still a goodly person, was no coward, had been accustomed to martial exercises, and seemed willing to defer to the advice of counsellors more wise than himself.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

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