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The correct spelling is deferred.
How to pronounce deferred
verb
IPA: /dɪˈfɜːd/
Say it like: Def-err-ed
The correct spelling is deferred. To delay or postpone For example: "We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts."
Usage Examples
“We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.”
“requested a deferred payment”
“The decision was deferred to the regional manager”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To delay or postpone
- 2.After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- 3.To delay, to wait.
- 4.To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
- 5.To render, to offer.
noun
- 1.A deferred bond.
- 2.An oath or affirmation; a vow
- 3.A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use
- 4.Reason to expect improvement or success; potential
- 5.A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation
adjective
- 1.Delayed; put off till later.
- 2.Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
- 3.Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes and income, either as an asset or liability.
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