Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEFENSIVE STOCKS - Stocks whose prices stay stable when the market declines. They are issued by industr...
  
  
• DEFERMENT - A period of time when a borrower is allowed to postpone student loan repayment (under certa...
  
  
• DEFERRAL - see DEFERRED.
  
  
• DEFERRED - in accounting, is any account where the asset or liability is not realized until a future da...
  
  
• DEFERRED (INCOME) TAXES - Amount allocated during the period to cover tax liabilities that have not yet...
  
  
• DEFERRED ACCOUNT - A type of account that delays taxes on that account until some later date. An exampl...
  
  
• DEFERRED ANNUITIES - Tax-advantaged life insurance products. Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes...
  
  
• DEFERRED ANNUITY - Unlike an immediate annuity, which starts paying you income right after you buy it, ...
  
  
• DEFERRED ASSET - an amount owed to an entity that is not expected to be received by that entity within ...
  
  
• DEFERRED CALL - A provision that prohibits the company from calling the bond before a certain date. Dur...