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What is the adjective for deferences?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb defer which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

deferred
  1. Delayed; put off till later.
  2. Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He longed to take up his deferred plans to study in Europe.”
deferential
  1. respectful and considerate; showing deference
  2. (anatomy) of, or relating to the vas deferens
  3. based on deference; based on the doctrine, ideology, or wishes of others rather than one's own conclusions
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In sharp contrast to many of his rivals, he had a modest and deferential manner.”
      “Why doesn't a polite and deferential invitation to talk do the trick any more?”
      “In sharp contrast to many of his rivals, he had a modest and deferential manner which put those in authority at their ease.”
deferent
  1. Showing deference.
  2. (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The defendant was deferent throughout the entire trial, displaying a commendable sense of responsibility and willingly carrying out their legal obligations.”
deferable
  1. Alternative form of deferrable
deferrable
  1. That can be deferred.
  2. Examples:
    1. “That's pretty standard guidance when an administration is facing a politically charged, but deferrable, decision in the run-up to an election.”
      “This is typically long-dated with deferrable coupons which is why regulators treated it as tier-one capital.”
      “It is my opinion that a discussion about plants' rights is no longer deferrable.”
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