To Hand Over, To Turn Over
Transitive verb and Godan verb
ゆずる
彼は、絶版になっている古い小説を私に譲ってくれました。
He gave me an old novel that is out of print.
If you are going to defer to someone, you are going to concede something. I concede / defer this to you.
What are you conceding? Some delicious yuzu (ゆず). You are sad, because they're so much better than lemons and now you don't have them.