Deferred vs Referred - What's the difference?
deferred | referred |
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)
(refer)
To direct the attention of.
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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As verbs the difference between deferred and referred
is that deferred is past tense of defer while referred is past tense of refer.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)referred
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Verb
(head)refer
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Verb
(referr)- The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- He referred the matter to the principal.
- to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
- He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
