defer

verb6

1. •
   To delay or postpone.

   • We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.
2. •
   to postpone induction into military service.
3. •
   After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
4. •
   To delay, to wait.

   • God […] will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name — 1671
5. •
   To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.

   • Hereupon the commissioners […] deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland. — 1622
6. •
   To render, to offer.

   • worship deferred to the Virgin — 1872