Meaning

simple past and past participle of defer.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of defer
2. Delayed; put off till later.
3. Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
4. (accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.
5. (programming) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
6. (finance) A deferred bond.

Example Sentences

requested a deferred payment

In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.

The decision was deferred to the regional manager

Now you can take the papers back. And let it be a warning to you, Parkinson, not to invest your savings in speculative railway deferreds.

Only some Eurobonds are Euro straights with normal fixed coupons: many have innovative coupon structures, like zeros, deferreds, or step-ups; many are dual-currency (coupon and principal currencies are not the same); […]

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• more deferred
• most deferred
• deferreds

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Use deferred when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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