different between deferred vs procrastinate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??f?d/

Verb

deferred

1. simple past tense and past participle of defer

Adjective

deferred (comparative more deferred, superlative most deferred)

1. Delayed; put off till later.

   Synonyms: delayed, postponed

2. Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.

3. (accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.

Translations

Noun

deferred (plural deferreds)

1. (programming) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
2. (finance) A deferred bond.
   • 2005, Robert Dubil, An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets (page 88)

     Only some Eurobonds are Euro straights with normal fixed coupons: many have innovative coupon structures, like zeros, deferreds, or step-ups; many are dual-currency (coupon and principal currencies are not the same); […]

English

Etymology

Either back-formation from procrastination, or from Latin pr?crastin?tum, past participle of pr?crastin? (“defer, put off till tomorrow”), from pr? (“in favor of”) + cr?stinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”), from cr?s (“tomorrow”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p????k?æst?ne?t/
• (US) enPR: pr?-kr?s't?-n?t', IPA^(key): /p?o??k?æst?ne?t/, /p???k?æst?ne?t/

Verb

procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)

1. (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.

   He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.

2. (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).

Synonyms

• procrastine (obsolete)
• (intransitive): delay, penelopize, stall
• (transitive): delay, postpone, put off, stall

Antonyms

• precrastinate

Derived terms

• procrastination
• procrastinator

Translations

See also

• carpe diem cras
• perendinate
• tomorrow never comes

Further reading

• procrastinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• procrastinate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• procrastinate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

procrastinate

1. second-person plural present indicative of procrastinare
2. second-person plural imperative of procrastinare
3. feminine plural of procrastinato

Latin

Verb

pr?cr?stin?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pr?cr?stin?