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What is the adjective for deferents?

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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. delayed, postponed, adjourned, prolonged, protracted, remanded, stalled, pigeonholed, retarded, shelved, suspended, temporised, temporized, held up, on hold, on the shelf, put off, on ice, on the back burner, staved off, in waiting, pushed back, put back, tabled, held over, prorogued, intermitted, scrubbed, up in the air, halted, interrupted, late, tardy, overdue, behind, hindered, slowed, stuck, behind schedule, caught up, immobilized, immobilised, weather-bound, icebound, fogbound, snowbound, stranded, stormbound … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “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
  4. Synonyms:
      5. respectful, civil, courteous, dutiful, polite, regardful, considerate, obedient, reverential, submissive, attentive, complaisant, humble, obeisant, obsequious, thoughtful, awed, fawning, ingratiating, subservient, toadying, acquiescent, biddable, compliant, deferent, docile, manageable, pliant, reverent, slavish, tractable, yielding, ingratiatory, mannerly, worshipful, gracious, obliging, courtly, well mannered, well-mannered, admiring, solicitous, worshiping, appreciative, gallant, chivalrous, decorous, pious, well behaved, well brought up … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “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. respectful, dutiful, deferential, regardful, faithful, obedient, compliant, submissive, docile, biddable, reverential, pliant, duteous, devoted, attentive, reverent, well-behaved, well disciplined, well trained, conscientious, loyal, good, dedicated, responsible, decent, punctilious, filial, binding, obligatory, incumbent on, accommodating, obliging, loving, considerate, tractable, amenable, kind, acquiescent, manageable, yielding, thoughtful, malleable, meek, pliable, governable, unresisting, passive, civil, solicitous, complaisant … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “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:
      3. “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.”
deferring
  1. present participle of defer
  2. Synonyms:
      3. giving up, surrendering, yielding, submitting, capitulating, succumbing, conceding, relenting, acquiescing, quitting, ceding, falling, folding, blinking, crumbling, giving in, caving in, crying Uncle, backing down, knuckling under, admitting defeat, conceding defeat, accepting defeat, throwing in the towel, showing the white flag, buckling under, going under, waving the white flag, eating humble pie, throwing in the sponge, laying down arms, rolling over, tossing it in, putting up white flag, giving way, bowing, budging, raising the white flag, acceding, falling victim, assenting, complying, resigning, packing it in, crying uncle, giving up the struggle, agreeing, accepting, caving, kowtowing … more
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