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deferred [dɪˈfɜːd] adj
1. withheld over a certain period; postponed a deferred payment 2. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Stock Exchange) (of shares) ranking behind other types of shares for dividend Translations deferred: deferred annuity n → nach bestimmter Zeit fällige Rente deferred pay n (Mil) → einbehaltener Sold; (Naut) → einbehaltene Heuer deferred payment n → Ratenzahlung f deferred shares pl → Nachzugsaktien pl deferred taxation n → Steuerrückstellung f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Further information concerning my doings (as well as concerning that affair with the officers) must be deferred until tonight. As they had been taken in the fact, the law of the country allowed that they might have been executed the same hour, but the viceroy having ordered that their death should be deferred till his return, delivered them to the relations of the dead, to be disposed of as they should think proper. As I happened to have been in a remarkably sound and refreshing slumber, I could not imagine why the information had not been deferred until morning, indeed, I felt very much inclined to fly into a passion and box my valet's ears; but on second thoughts I got quietly up, and on going outside the house was not a little interested by the moving illumination which I beheld. |
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