1
: withheld for or until a stated time
a deferred payment
2
: charged in cases of delayed handling
telegraphs sent at deferred rates
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Hill recommended spreading the expenses across three years, with $19.2 million to be put toward the deferred maintenance costs during the 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2024
Cities across the Bay Area are grappling with similarly aging infrastructure and significant funding challenges to address deferred maintenance.
—Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
In past budget crises, Petek wrote, the state made across-the-board cuts to per-pupil allocations (the amount the state spends per student) and deferred payments.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
The Walton Family Foundation will be contributing a below market rate, deferred loan, said Casey Kleinhenz, executive director of Community Development NWA.
—Campbell Roper, arkansasonline.com, 26 Mar. 2024
The deferred prosecution agreement had been set to expire three years after it was filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 22 Mar. 2024
That investigation carries the potential to upend a controversial deferred prosecution agreement that Boeing reached with the Justice Department in the final month of the Trump administration.
—Sara Smart, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
The current museum, which opened in 1963 at 800 W. Wells St., is too large, inefficient and affected by years of deferred maintenance, according to museum officials.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
The Justice Department is now investigating whether or not the latest Boeing issues brought to light in the wake of the Alaska Air incident would violate a controversial deferred prosecution agreement the company reached in 2021, which could open the company for criminal liability.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2024
Cities across the Bay Area are grappling with similarly aging infrastructure and significant funding challenges to address deferred maintenance.
—Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
In past budget crises, Petek wrote, the state made across-the-board cuts to per-pupil allocations (the amount the state spends per student) and deferred payments.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
The Walton Family Foundation will be contributing a below market rate, deferred loan, said Casey Kleinhenz, executive director of Community Development NWA.
—Campbell Roper, arkansasonline.com, 26 Mar. 2024
The deferred prosecution agreement had been set to expire three years after it was filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 22 Mar. 2024
That investigation carries the potential to upend a controversial deferred prosecution agreement that Boeing reached with the Justice Department in the final month of the Trump administration.
—Sara Smart, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
The current museum, which opened in 1963 at 800 W. Wells St., is too large, inefficient and affected by years of deferred maintenance, according to museum officials.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
The Justice Department is now investigating whether or not the latest Boeing issues brought to light in the wake of the Alaska Air incident would violate a controversial deferred prosecution agreement the company reached in 2021, which could open the company for criminal liability.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
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“Deferred.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deferred. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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