DEFERRED meaning: Postponed or delayed to later time

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deferred)

▸ adjective:  Delayed; put off till later.
▸ adjective:  Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
▸ adjective:  (accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.
▸ noun:  (programming) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
▸ noun:  (finance) A deferred bond.

Opposite:

immediate, instant, prompt, on-time, punctual

Types:

compensated, qualified, non-qualified, defined benefit, pension, annuity, IRA, more...

Phrases:

Deferred compensation, Deferred tax, Deferred income, deferred payment, deferred taxes, more...

Adjectives:

hope, tax, payment, some, initially, relative

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