Deferred vs Differed - What's the difference?
deferred | differed |
Of or pertaining to delay of an action.
Of or pertaining to yielding to someone else's decision or judgment.
(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.
(defer)
(differ)
Not to have the same traits, characteristics.
To have diverging opinions, disagree.
* Canning
As verbs the difference between deferred and differed
is that deferred is past tense of defer while differed is past tense of differ.As an adjective deferred
is of or pertaining to delay of an action.deferred
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Adjective
(en adjective)- requested a deferred payment
Synonyms
* (delay of action) delayed, postponed * (give way to someone) acquiescedVerb
(head)differed
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Verb
(head)differ
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Verb
(en verb)- If the honourable gentleman differs with me on that subject, I differ as heartily with him, and shall always rejoice to differ.
