Meaning of deferred in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To delay or postpone

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

• 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).

• To delay, to wait.

verb

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

• To render, to offer.

noun

• A deferred bond.

adjective

• Delayed; put off till later.

  Example: requested a deferred payment

• Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.

  Example: The decision was deferred to the regional manager

• Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes and income, either as an asset or liability.

noun

• An oath or affirmation; a vow

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

• 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

• Reason to expect improvement or success; potential

  Example: She shows great promise as an actress.

• A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation

• Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised