Put on hold
The crossword clue "Put on hold" is answered by DEFER, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEFER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFER answer page.
Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SHELVED (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for DEFER
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFER, most used first.
- Postpone - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- Put off - used 99 times, most recently in 2025
- Table - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Put off until later - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Yield - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
- Hold off - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Reschedule for later - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Postpone an action - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Put off till later - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Put on the back burner - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Schedule for later - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Shelve - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Put up - ERECT, used 263 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Put in office - ELECT, used 120 times
- Put into law - ENACT, used 97 times
- Put back to zero - RESET, used 85 times
- Put forth - EXERT, used 80 times
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