Defer vs Concede - What's the difference?
defer | concede |
To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
* Shakespeare
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to delay, to wait
* Milton
(American football) to choose to kick off after winning the opening coin toss.
(legal) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
* Francis Bacon
* 1899 ,
to render, to offer
* Brevint
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
To yield or make concession.
(sports) To have a goal or point scored against
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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
As verbs the difference between defer and concede
is that defer is to delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service while concede is to yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.defer
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) differer, from (etyl) .Verb
(deferr)- Defer the spoil of the city until night.
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- God will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name.
Derived terms
* deferralEtymology 2
* From (etyl)Verb
(deferr)- Hereupon the commissioners deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
- "Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.
- worship deferred to the Virgin
Derived terms
* deferenceAnagrams
* * ----concede
English
Verb
(conced)- He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
- Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
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