Crossword-Solution: DEFERRED 8 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Deferred imp. & p. p. of Defer

We have 29 clues for the answer “DEFERRED”

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Yielded to another's opinion. 1 answer
"Fine, I'll remove the lining from your coat," the tailor ___ 1 answer
Type of payment. 4 answers
Complied. 5 answers
intermitted 9 answers
Abeyant 15 answers
Slowed 21 answers
Dilly-dallying 22 answers
Delayed 32 answers
Held (up) 32 answers
dilatory 33 answers
postponed 35 answers
lurking 41 answers
procrastinating 41 answers
lingering 43 answers
Suppressed 46 answers
Tardy 49 answers
Quiescent 53 answers
Leisurely 54 answers
belated 56 answers
Latent 58 answers
tarrying 58 answers
Payment 61 answers
gradual 61 answers
Unhurried 61 answers
Loitering. 64 answers
Put off 66 answers
Dawdling 69 answers
Behind 78 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFERRED (5)

She and Frank had been living there for five years when Carl Linstrum came back to pay his long deferred visit to Alexandra.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Bills don't get paid on time, clutter piles up to incredible heights in homes and offices, and minor maintenance tasks get deferred indefinitely.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
When he returned from Switzerland, where he had studied Electrical Engineering, he had to do his compulsory military service which had been deferred while he was completing his education.
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008
Slowly there came to me the recollection of the deferred doom that awaited me since that time I had been tried here in the Temple by Zat Arras for the sin of returning from the Valley Dor and the Lost Sea of Korus.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The bottom of the river was gravelly, there was no indication of crocodiles, those menaces to promiscuous bathing in the rivers of certain portions of the dark continent, and so the Abyssinians took advantage of the opportunity to perform long-deferred, and much needed, ablutions.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Quotes with DEFERRED (3)

She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think…
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Bill Willingham Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team
What happens to a dream deferred?
Langston Hughes
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2016).