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  • adjective Common misspelling of deferred.

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Examples

  • Michael Jackson's official death certificate lists the singer's cause of death as "deffered", while results of toxicology tests are still pending.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2009

  • Think of the added economic cost of reassembling and training the new workforce – this would be just one of the costs involved in restarting the business (presumably plant and equipment maintenance would have been deffered, etc and a restart up would involve additional costs).

    Matthew Yglesias » “Taking Money From One Place and Giving it To Another Place” 2010

  • The insiders may have worked for years building the company with little or no money pay and this is their deferred payday (with a lot of deffered bills to meet) ... at the moment of the IPO they suddenly have way too much of their total wealth in one investment and must diversify, etc.

    Are Small Investors Irrational?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • If I neglected to include that expense in my list it's because I assume for $100,000 budget they can't get anyone who could actually demand real money, or would operate under some deffered salary/SAG agreement, whereas the unions are the unions and they don't budge.

    After Paranormal Activity, Paramount Plans to Stay in the Micro-Budget Film Biz | /Film 2009

  • We watched the Parliamentary debate and it looked like we carried the day... but then the vote was deffered until Monday or Tuesday of next week.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • In fact, I'll wager he probably did know better than the likely much younger and less experienced actual producer who may well have deffered to his judgement.

    Some sane words on the Brand/Ross/Sachs affair... annawaits 2008

  • Speaking of horror, my DVD for Garth Marenghi's Darkplace finally arrived after having been deffered release for months by bloody Channel 4.

    fried head deannahoak 2006

  • Anglo and its partners will pay ZCCM 30 million dollars at the close of the transaction, and a further 60 million dollars in deffered payments.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • I should have written to you before this advanced period of the Session, but deffered it until about the time, the honerary speeches of the Senior Class were to be given.

    Letter from F. W. Harrison to Thomas Jones, April 10, 1824 1824

  • Basically all of your left wing links cherry picks companies who have deffered taxes through accelerated depreciation or some other legal means or years where the government gave large incentives to invest in their companies.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Funny 2010

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