Deferred

Quick meaning: Deferred is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of defer.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of defer.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

requested a deferred payment

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); […]

Word Forms

• deferreds

Synonyms for deferred

Depending on context, synonyms include delayed, postponed, promise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include postponed, delayed, postpone, postponement, deferment, deferral.

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