Modifies a noun

• annuity: For a deferred annuity where the payments may not start for a decade or more the gains are even greater.

• taxation: Neither the charge for deferred taxation nor the provision will impact upon the future cash flows of the group.

• entry: Also, students who apply for deferred entry to start in 2006 will usually not have to pay top up fees.

• pensioner: Current members are employees, pensioners and deferred pensioners numbering around 30.5 thousand in total.

• gratification: The healthy use of it is called ' deferred gratification ' .

• consideration: Deferred consideration of up to £ 300,000, payable in cash on 1 November 2003.

Modifying Another Word

• endlessly: Interpretation itself becomes a subject of interpretation, and meaning is endlessly deferred - you know, all that stuff.

• always: The chief immigration officer told us that removals were always deferred pending police investigations.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: There will be no such listing of those cases where by prior agreement payment of fees is deferred and remains deferred.