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deferred charge

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noun

  1. an expenditure shown as a cost of operation carried forward and written off in one or more future periods.

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Under "pressure" not to send more cases to courts already overloaded due to Covid-19, police instead put him through a deferred charge programme - Pathfinder - and a thinking skills course.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2023

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