PUT OFF Copy link • PUT OFF(PROP.) ponere, deponere (to lay down); exuere (e.g., vestem); abjicere (to cast away). To put off a garment, vestem ponere, or deponere, or abjicere (of a garment thrown or wrapped round one); vestem exuere (of a garment drawn on). To sell, extrudere (merces). To defer, procrastinate, differre, proferre, conferre (with this difference, that with differre the term may be definite or indefinite; with proferre and conferre, for which we rarely find transferre, the term is always definite); procrastinare, (The words are found in this connection and order.) differre et procrastinare (to put off to the next day, especially in a dilatory way): producere, prolatare (to delay, procrastinate): rejicere, reservare (to reserve for another time what ought to be done now). To put off from one day to another, diem ex die ducere or prolatare: to put off for some days, aliquot dies proferre or promovere; prodere (nuptias) aliquot dies.