Referred vs. Deferred — What's the Difference?

To direct to a source for help or information

Postponed or delayed

To submit (a matter in dispute) to an authority for arbitration, decision, or examination.

Withheld until a future date

To direct the attention of

Simple past tense and past participle of defer

To assign or attribute to; regard as originated by.

Delayed; put off till later.

To assign to or regard as belonging within a particular kind or class

Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.

To relate or pertain; concern

(accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.

To serve as a descriptor or have as a denotation

(programming) promise

To speak or write about something briefly or incidentally; make reference

(finance) A deferred bond.

To turn one's attention, as in seeking information

Put off to later;

Simple past tense and past participle of refer