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  • adjective That can be deferred.

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defer +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Holders of some U.K. bonds are also being affected, with so-called deferrable-interest notes tied to British subprime mortgages having missed payments.

    unknown title 2009

  • Why do people need to buy big-ticket items that are deferrable?

    Get Briefed: Ken Fisher 2010

  • Now here's how Argos is preparing for Christmas, the period when it hopes those deferrable purchases will be deferred no longer.

    Argos barometer indicates a cold Christmas 2010

  • In return, Israel has had to commit to nothing other than a few vague and craftily-worded -- and endlessly deferrable -- promises.

    Saree Makdisi: Netanyahu's Two-State Goal? 2009

  • Win Bischoff, the incoming chairman at Lloyds Banking Group PLC, said bonuses paid to senior bank executives should be both deferrable and paid in shares, as he weighed in on the debate over how banks can improve their remuneration policies to guard against banking crises.

    Lloyds's Bischoff Calls for Bonuses to Be Delayed, Paid in Shares 2009

  • The difficulty we're faced with is, our cars are better quality, better durability, so [for many consumers] it's a deferrable purchase.

    The Deficit Is Job One 2008

  • From that logic your gains in-world as a corporation should be deferrable until repatriated to the United States – not when you merely convert to US Dollars.

    Here come the regulators....everybody duck! 2007

  • This system, called “channeling,” was a form of social engineering, pressing men to pursue deferrable professions or maintain scholastic standards and thus student deferments.

    Indulge Me 2005

  • However, in industrialised countries the costs of supply insecurity for non-deferrable economic activities are huge.

    Chapter 8 2000

  • Economic cost of electricity supply interruptions for non-deferrable economic activities the United States, 1997

    Chapter 8 2000

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