# Defer

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**Defer** may refer to:

- [Defer Elementary School](/source/Defer_Elementary_School), a Michigan State Historic Site
- [Deference](/source/Deference), the acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the power of one's superior or superiors
- [Deferral](/source/Deferral), the delaying of the realization of an asset or liability until a future date
- [Defer](/source/Manual_memory_management#Defer) in programming, a deference mechanism to postpone cleanup calls until the end of a function call

## See also

- **DeFer**
- [Differ (disambiguation)](/source/Differ_(disambiguation))

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