Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEFENDANT - The person against whom a claim is asserted in a Court action.
  
  
• DEFENSE INTERVAL - see BASIC DEFENSE INTERVAL.
  
  
• DEFENSIVE SECURITIES - Low-risk stocks or bonds that will provide a predictable and safe return on an i...
  
  
• DEFENSIVE SECURITY - Defensive securities tend to remain more stable in value than the overall market, ...
  
  
• 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...