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Respect with its spine surgically removed, offered to whoever outranks you
means Yielding, respectful submission to someone else's judgment, wishes, or authority, often by setting aside your own opinion.
from From French 'déférence,' tracing back to Latin 'deferre' — 'to carry away' or 'to bring to' (de- 'down/away' + ferre 'to carry'). The Latin verb also gave rise to the legal sense of 'referring' a matter to someone else's judgment, which is the thread that survives in English: deference is the act of carrying your own will over and handing it to another.
- etymology
- from latin deferre, to carry away or yield
- office version
- laughing hardest at the boss's joke
- danger sign
- too much breeds yes-men and plane crashes
- not the same as
- respect, which survives disagreement