Postpone in order to comply with wishes of others (5)

I believe the answer is:

defer

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'postpone' is the definition.
(I know that postpone can be written as defer)

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(Other definitions for defer that I've seen before include "Postpone or yield to another" , "Put off, postpone" , "Put off till later" , "Allow precedence (to)" , "Give precedence to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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