Word Finder - deferred

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To delay or postpone

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We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.

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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).

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To delay, to wait.

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To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.

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To render, to offer.

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A deferred bond.

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Delayed; put off till later.

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requested a deferred payment

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Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.

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The decision was deferred to the regional manager

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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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An oath or affirmation; a vow

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if I make a promise, I always stick to it;  he broke his promise

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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

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Reason to expect improvement or success; potential

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She shows great promise as an actress.

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A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation

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• deferred
• delay
• future

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Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised

The construction of railways was long deferred and slowly accomplished.

But the question was only deferred and not settled.

If the crop failed, payment was deferred and no interest could be charged for that year.

It will no doubt aid the understanding of the functions of the latter if some explanation is offered of the needs met by the former, which are sometimes known technically as " deferred deliveries."

But the French wars, the Wars of the Roses and the persecution of the Lollards deferred the coming of the new age; and the year 1536, when Henry VIII.

He was recalled in 1621, and began to be instructed in the Roman Catholic religion, though his abjuration of Protestantism was deferred until the end of 1622.

The government offers programs that will help you save for your child's college tuition tax deferred, such as an education IRA.

Annuities are tax deferred, which means that you do not have to pay taxes on your investments until you begin receiving payments on them.

They no doubt deferred the baptism which is death to sin, perhaps because, like the Cathars, they held post-baptismal sin to be unforgivable.

The new consuls were to be murdered on the 1st of January; but the plot - the execution of which was deferred till the 5th of February - failed in consequence of the impatience of Catiline, who gave the signal too hastily.

Newport News deferred billing coupon codes are special coupon codes you offer an operator, add to a customer order form and enter online before you complete your order.

You should know that you can choose between immediate income payments versus deferred ones, fixed or variable payment amounts, and more.

The final settlement of a rule requiring brake-levers to be fitted on both sides of goods-wagons was, however, deferred, owing to objections raised by certain of the railway companies.

The demands of the various departments of state had been much cut down, and according to the minister of finance's own statement much of the reduction was merely unavoidable expenditure deferred; the fact that some of this expenditure, which had been jealously scrutinized, was to be undertaken at once, meant that demands on future years would be relatively re- duced.

Mathematically we have thus in all cases to compute present value on the basis of a deferred as well as a limited annuity.

The latter were about to bury him without delay or ceremony, but the gastald or chief magistrate of the city interfered and appointed a public funeral; rumours of his wondrous travels and of posthumous miracles were diffused, and excitement spread like wildfire over Friuli and Carniola; the ceremony had to be deferred more than once, and at last took place in presence of the patriarch of Aquileia and all the local dignitaries.

The treatment of an angle as generated by rotation, the investigation of the relations between trigonometrical ratios and circular measure, the application of interpolation to trigonometrical tables, and the general use of graphical methods to represent continuous variation, all imply an analytical onlook, and must therefore be deferred to this stage.

Here it had been intended to construct permanent works, but considerations of expenditure had caused this to be deferred.

On the death of the regent Orleans in 1723 Fleury, although already seventy years of age, deferred his own supremacy by suggesting the appointment of Louis Henri, duke of Bourbon, as first minister.

At the time of the Reformation, the reformers, with their strong sense of the crucial importance of faith, emphasized the action of the individual in the service, and therefore laid it down as a rule that confirmation should be deferred till the child could learn a catechism on the fundamentals of the Christian faith, which Calvin thought he might do by the time he was ten.

Fruit trees and shrubs may be set out; but, if planting is deferred to the last of the month, the ground around the roots should be mulched to the thickness of 3 or 4 in.

Dandolo then proposed that if they helped him to reduce Zara payment might be deferred.

The council of Capua, inspired by the pope, deferred to the council of Macedonia the affair of Bonosus, bishop of Sardinia, who had been accused of heresy.

Thus that amount of energy is not lost, but has its operation deferred; and it is said to be stored when the weight is lifted, and restored when it falls.

Any horizontal fissure in a weak place would, in the nature of things, strike somewhere a stronger place, and the final failure would be deferred.

On the 12th of May of the following year Wilberforce, in co-operation with Pitt, brought the subject of abolition again before the House of Commons; but the friends of the planters succeeded in getting the matter deferred.

Publication of the papal bull is deferred until October; on reading it, Henry appeals to the projected general council.

Neither the charge for deferred taxation nor the provision will impact upon the future cash flows of the group.

The application was subsequently deferred due to a lack of time.

Interpretation itself becomes a subject of interpretation, and meaning is endlessly deferred - you know, all that stuff.

The chief immigration officer told us that removals were always deferred pending police investigations.

There will be no such listing of those cases where by prior agreement payment of fees is deferred and remains deferred.

Applications are welcomed both pre- and post-A level, and for deferred entry.

It does not, very broadly, catch inducements representing amounts foregone or deferred by the provider.

The healthy use of it is called ' deferred gratification ' .

This aspect of this complex process can be deferred pending the outcome of planning consent being given or with held.

A final decision was deferred following a huge public outcry.

If you don't want to transfer your benefits, you can leave them in USS (this is called a deferred pension ).

I deferred from my final semester to take up a job with the Metropolitan Police.

The widow's, widow's, widower 's or civil partner's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.

The widow's, widower 's or civil partner's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.

But theologians in the West had elaborated a theory of the grace of confirmation, which made its severance from baptism seem natural; and at the time of the Reformation, while neither side favoured the Eastern practice, the reformers, with their strong sense of the crucial importance of faith, emphasized the action of the individual in the service, and therefore laid it down as a rule that confirmation should be deferred till the child could learn a catechism on the fundamentals of the Christian faith, which Calvin thought he might do by the time he was ten.

Among the many difficulties which beset the question, not the least obvious was the length of time during which the Church must remain without a ruler, if - as Sigismund and the German nation demanded - the papal election were deferred till the completion of the internal reforms. The result was decided by the policy of the cardinals, who since May 1417 had openly devoted their whole energies to the acceleration of that election; and union was preserved by means of a compromise arranged by Bishop Henry of Winchester, the uncle of the English king.

The realization of a good Dream may be deferred 22 years.

In addition, any tax on gains within the bond is deferred until such time as the funds are repatriated onshore.

Any business not transacted by the end of the meeting is deferred to another meeting and heard afresh.

The widow 's, widower 's or civil partner 's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.

If interest rates were to remain at current levels in 2007 then some level of write-off of deferred acquisition costs may be necessary.

Your account will be assessed a late fee if you don't pay the deferred amount during the next billing period.

Special offers - You can take advantage of extended payment plans and promotional offers which may be available for deferred interest payments on selected purchases.