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# Deferred

A publisher that awaits subscription before running the supplied closure to create a publisher for the new subscriber.

```
struct Deferred<DeferredPublisher> where DeferredPublisher : Publisher
```

## Topics

### Creating a deferred publisher

[`init(createPublisher:)`](/documentation/Combine/Deferred/init(createPublisher:))

Creates a deferred publisher.

### Declaring supporting types

[`Deferred.Output`](/documentation/Combine/Deferred/Output)

The kind of values published by this publisher.

[`Deferred.Failure`](/documentation/Combine/Deferred/Failure)

The kind of errors this publisher might publish.

### Inspecting publisher properties

[`createPublisher`](/documentation/Combine/Deferred/createPublisher)

The closure to execute when this deferred publisher receives a subscription.


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