Lexic.us

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to yielding to someone else's decision or judgment. ¹

3. Adjective. (accounting) 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. ¹

4. Verb. (past of defer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deferred

1. defer [v] - See also: defer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deferred

Literary usage of Deferred

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"CHAPTER HI THE STANDARD FOR deferred PAYMENTS It was the purpose of chapter ii to show the relation of the pecuniary unit to financial accounting, ..."

2. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"CHAPTER III THE STANDARD FOR deferred PAYMENTS It was the purpose of chapter ii to show the relation of the pecuniary unit to financial accounting, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The valu, of any deferred payment is the difference between the sum to be ultimately paid and the discount for the period during which it is deferred. ..."

4. Principles of Business by Charles William Gerstenberg (1918)
"deferred CHARGES TO EXPENSE What are deferred charges.—Where liabilities have ieen incurred or cash paid for items of expense the bene- it or a part of the ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"received by the commissioner, whether from the cash or deferred payments. Error to Circuit Court, Preston County; John Homer Holt, Judge. ..."

6. Outlines of Economics by Richard Theodore Ely, Thomas Sewall Adams (1910)
"money, then, is found in its use as a standard of deferred payments.1 As Professor Irving Fisher has shown, there is a partial compensation for the ..."

7. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"... might he have had a week to run twenty miles in his life, to have deferred that journey to the last hour of that week. HON. You say right; and yet the ..."

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