Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Postponed or delayed: deferred gratification; deferred military draft.
- adj. Withheld until a future date: deferred benefits; a deferred payment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of or pertaining to delay of an action.
- adj. Of or pertaining to yielding to someone else's decision or judgment.
- adj. 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.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of defer.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I want to emphasize, Larry, if I might this is what they call a deferred emergency and I believe someone said it a few minutes ago, you know.
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Short term deferred values increased to $192.5 million up 25% year-over-year.
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The FHFA, in consultation with the Treasury Department, approved pay packages that allow for long-term deferred compensation and bonus pay valued at millions in cash.
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Hillwood also alleges the Mavericks are on the hook for more than $300 million in deferred compensation payments.
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He got a $500,000 raise to $1.35 million annually and will pocket another $1.4 million in deferred pay if he stays through the seven-year term of the agreement.
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The companies' regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, in consultation with the Treasury Department, approved pay packages in December 2009 that allow for long-term deferred compensation and bonus pay worth millions in cash.
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"A dream once deferred is now being fulfilled," Gov.
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The Treasury Department and the FHFA in 2009 approved pay packages that allow for long-term deferred compensation and bonuses pay worth millions in cash, largely because the firms' shares became worthless after the government's takeover.
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I agree that tax deferred is not the same thing as tax free, but it's closer.
U.S. as Debtor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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On the other hand, deferred is a formal agreement typically between the prosecutor, an already-charged defendant, and the Court.
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