deferred

Delayed; put off till later.

Adjective

  1. Delayed; put off till later.
    • 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...

    Synonyms: delayed postponed

  2. Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
    • The decision was deferred to the regional manager
  3. Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.

Forms

more deferred most deferred

Derived

deferred prosecution agreement deferred time nondeferred undeferred

Noun

  1. Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).

    Synonyms: promise

  2. A deferred bond.
    • 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. - 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
    • 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);...

Forms

deferreds

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of defer