Synonym: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, respect, respectfulness. Similar words: reference, preference, conference, difference, make a difference, coherence, irreverence, different. Meaning: ['defərəns] 
n. 1. a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard 2. courteous regard for people's feelings 3. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
n. 1. a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard 2. courteous regard for people's feelings 3. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others. 
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31. Director Jack Cardiff cut all my best lines in deference to the Hollywood stars.
32. At least for a short time, schoolmates often showed deference to their fallen peers.
33. In partial deference to that pOtential backlash, current incumbents did not actively seek committee endorsement.
34. They are also used to unquestioning deference to their own leaders, be they family, clan or tribe.
35. His voice, in deference to the large, dark quiet, was low, husky and drawling.
36. The poisonous snakes invite a certain deference, and the rattlesnake is even canned occasionally for human consumption.
37. But everyone erupted into giggles and bolted down the street as free of deference as the wind.
38. Your ideas will be judged for their merit, rather than in deference to your position.
39. Out of deference to me, and for the eventual eradication of our corneas, we sat in the absolute front row.
40. Conversely, those to whom citizens accord deference have been characterized by having an in-bred sense of duty.
41. Could I be content to be an exception, one among a small group of professional women who were treated with deference?
42. It was a continual source of irritation to Lewis that Adam did not show more respect and deference to Hilbert.
43. We noticed with what great deference he treated Eliot, though they were obviously on close and confidential terms.
44. For myself, I must with all deference reject that philosophy.
45. But, in deference to religious pressure groups, the Sunday hours were to remain unchanged.
46. In deference to his age, however, they did not put him in lock-up.
47. Although they were dressed formally in dark suits, both men were wearing heavy rubber boots in deference to winter.
48. So educational achievement rather than nepotism offers a background to the respect, status and deference accorded to elites.
49. The tone of deference suggests that this person was a new acquaintance, and that Leapor respected her literary judgement.
50. Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference, and Omi paid it with subtle superiority.
51. Such notions are manifest in demonstrations of deference in interaction with incomers - especially with pilots.
52. I suppose she suggested it in deference to the participatory politics of the time.
53. Now, in her prime years, she was treated with respect, deference and even a little awe.
53. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
54. The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference, if not quite dead, would henceforth have a hard time.
55. He picked up a card with deference.
56. He touched his forelock in mock deference.
57. I changed my plan in deference to your opinion.
58. He showed deference to his coach.
59. Traditionally it embodies a degree of deference.
60. Variations in the Level of Deference.
More similar words: reference, preference, conference, difference, make a difference, coherence, irreverence, different, indifferent, differentiate, defend, defense, refer, defender, prefer, defensive, defendant, refer to, preferable, French, interfere, inherent, currency, interfere in, inherently, trenchant, interfere with, serendipity, belligerent, fence.