What's the difference between deferred and unearned?

Deferred


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Defer

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
  • (2) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
  • (3) The effect of deferring immediate coronary artery bypass was evaluated in two groups of similar patients having successful direct coronary artery thrombolysis with streptokinase in the treatment of evolving myocardial infarction.
  • (4) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
  • (5) The programme source insists that Desmond, while getting "seriously involved" in the production, has frequently deferred to Endemol and has "very much put his money where his mouth is" on the budget.
  • (6) This paper discusses the risk of SAH recurrence and the risk of vasospasm and ischaemia during the waiting time before surgery, in the attitude of deferred surgery which was elected in most cases of this series and compares the outcome with other published series.
  • (7) The Scottish government deferred this year's cut to next year to boost the recovery, and it will get less than £27bn next year.
  • (8) In his letter, Franklin said he was "somewhat surprised" by the guilty finding but "gave deference to the court-martial jury because they had personally observed the actual trial."
  • (9) Recently, balloon aortic valvuloplasty has been proposed for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis in elderly patients when aortic valve replacement has been declined or deferred.
  • (10) Tentative conclusions, with deference to the complex nature of dyslexia, are drawn and suggestions are made for future research.
  • (11) But for the fourth successive budget, because of high and volatile prices in the oil market, i propose to defer the usual inflation increase until September 1st.
  • (12) It would defer the moment of confronting the underlying problem, which is not a strong currency but a rotten state.
  • (13) "All he would have had was a deferred crisis in Britain.
  • (14) Following a median 10-day induction course, 16 patients with retinitis continued to have serial ophthalmologic assessments: eight patients were maintained on treatment and eight had maintenance treatment deferred.
  • (15) If initial thrombolytic therapy reestablishes vessel patency, similar improvements in ventricular function can be expected even if PTCA is deferred until clinically indicated by evidence of recurrent ischemia.
  • (16) One of the two patients with active osteomyelitis at the time of vascularized bone transfer had complications from recurrent sepsis, leading to the authors' caveat that vascularized bone transfer should be deferred until such time as sepsis is inactive.
  • (17) "Whilst I can't defer all the blame away from myself, I was barely out of my teenage years, and the consequence of this portrayal of me is that now I am frequently abused on social media," she said.
  • (18) George Osborne averted a Tory backbench rebellion in the Commons on Monday when the Treasury gave a powerful hint that the government could defer a planned 3p increase in fuel duty.
  • (19) No one can quite believe McChrystal would be so stupid ..." Author Eliot Cohen, writing in the Wall Street Journal , also stressed military deference to civilian authority.
  • (20) Comparison with 40 patients with TO-3 NX MO disease, whose treatment was deferred initially, showed a higher incidence of local progression in the untreated patients.

Unearned


Definition:

  • (a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My generation, buying homes in the 1970s, has seen the value of property soar above inflation every year: unearned, untaxed wealth caused by scarcity from failure to build.
  • (2) Updated at 9.38pm BST 9.35pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 2, bottom of the 4th Matt Moore is on the hook for both of those runs, just in case anyone doesn't believe that the rules for earned and unearned runs are dumb.
  • (3) This is now, when house prices are spiralling out of the reach of ordinary households, benefitting the few as their unearned asset rises in value while the wages of the many stagnate.
  • (4) New progressives want to reshape the tax base fundamentally, towards greater taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than of people.
  • (5) There are many old people sitting on mountainous property wealth generated by multiple bubbles, an unearned bonanza that has never been taxed.
  • (6) Hunt adds: “However, I should be clear that, whilst there may well be some within our party who see equality as an end in and of itself, I am not one of them … The fundamental task of progressive politics remains to ensure the opportunities enjoyed by the powerful are spread to the powerless.” Hunt, who will call for a new focus by Labour on taxing unearned wealth, including an annual tax on property values levied on owners to replace the “unfair and outdated” council tax, will also say that both New Labour and Ed Miliband’s Labour failed to make an effective case against inequality.
  • (7) Michael Gove surprised his audience at a conference fringe meeting last month with the declaration that Conservatives should talk more about the “undeserving rich” , whose insulation from risk by unearned reward was discrediting the case for free market capitalism.
  • (8) This allows people with a residency to legally avoid paying state income tax on so-called “unearned” income, such as dividends, interests and retirement benefits.
  • (9) The new tax would be a charge of 15% on unearned income and income from investment, he said, only applying to those paying the additional rate of tax for earnings of £150,000 a year or more.
  • (10) Yes is the answer, the Boston Red Sox , who capitalized on St Louis' mistakes to the tune of three unearned runs, even if they only needed two for the win, thanks to the animal in John Lester, who was lights out...again They would up with eight, a tremendous sign for Sox bats that were in a serious slump despite reaching the Fall Classic.
  • (11) Women face very real barriers, men are given very real unearned benefits, and these are collective social problems.
  • (12) Those who subscribe to such a view also deem income from benefits as somehow "unearned", yet there is very little "unearned" about it.
  • (13) Two other remuneration reports have also been defeated this year, at housebuilder Bellway, where investors objected to an unearned bonus, and at Provident Financial, where there was a 51% protest vote against a 20% pay rise for Peter Crook, the Provident Financial chief executive.
  • (14) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people."
  • (15) Both the Lib Dem leader and business secretary, Vince Cable , signalled on Saturday that the party would only entertain the abolition of the top rate in the long run if it was not raising much revenue and if it was replaced by new taxes on "unearned income".
  • (16) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people.
  • (17) Given these are but a few of the unearned advantages of being a white woman, they might just want to listen to their sisters about their economic, social and literal states of death as much as they demand - and maybe buy them a cup of coffee before they beat them to the pearly gates.
  • (18) Like that of Wallace and Thatcher, his "middle" comprises the "productive" members of society opposed to the "unproductive", the parasites living on "unearned" income.
  • (19) A mansion tax – a levy on rich homes – is thus eminently justifiable, as is a tax on unearned increases in land value.
  • (20) But the phrase stuck as Labour presided over a top rate of income tax of 83p in the pound, with an additional 15p tax on unearned income.

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