Deferred Definition

dĭ-fûrd
adjective
Postponed.
Webster's New World
Having the rights, interest, or payment withheld until a certain date.
A deferred annuity.
Webster's New World

Of or pertaining to delay of an action.

Requested a deferred payment.
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Of or pertaining to yielding to someone else's decision or judgment.

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(accounting) Of or pertaining to a value that is not realized until a future date, e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, income, either as an asset or liability.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of defer.

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Deferred Sentence Examples

  • The construction of railways was long deferred and slowly accomplished.

  • But the question was only deferred and not settled.

  • If the crop failed, payment was deferred and no interest could be charged for that year.

  • It will no doubt aid the understanding of the functions of the latter if some explanation is offered of the needs met by the former, which are sometimes known technically as " deferred deliveries."

  • But the French wars, the Wars of the Roses and the persecution of the Lollards deferred the coming of the new age; and the year 1536, when Henry VIII.

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