Roleset defer.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "put off until a later time":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, causer of delay


Arg1:event delayed


Arg2:delay itself, EXT, or new time

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


just transitive (-)
The company is highlighting more special deals in its advertising and stores, and it's offering *trace* to defer finance charges on certain big-ticket items.
Arg0:	*trace* -> it
REL:	defer
Arg1:	finance charges on certain big-ticket items

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


passive with new time (-)
Although the company could see fourth-quarter revenue shrink by nearly $5 billion if it isn't able to deliver any more planes this year, those dollars actually would just be deferred *trace* until 1990.
ArgM-ADV:	Although the company could see fourth-quarter revenue shrink by nearly $5 billion if it isn't able to deliver any more planes this year
ArgM-DIS:	actually
ArgM-ADV:	just
REL:	deferred
Arg1:	*trace* -> those dollars
Arg2-until:	1990

Ignore adjectival usages like "some deferred payments".

Roleset defer.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "acknowledge as superior":

Roles:

Arg0:inferior thing


Arg1:superior thing

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: active form: full


deference (-)
But dominant in the sense that every other objective , no matter how worthy intrinsically , must defer to it .
Arg0:	every other objective
ArgM-ADV:	no matter how worthy intrinsically
ArgM-MOD:	must
REL:	defer
Arg1-to:	it