different between deferred vs waiting

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?t??/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [?we?????]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Verb

waiting

1. present participle of wait
   • 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122.

     In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.

Derived terms

• waiting game
• waiting room
• waiting shelter

Noun

waiting (countable and uncountable, plural waitings)

1. (obsolete) Watching.
2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
   • 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets:

     There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.

3. Attendance, service.

Derived terms

• in waiting

Translations

References

• waiting in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.