Simple past tense and past participle of refer.(verb)
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Use "referred" in a sentence
"Iran was not referred to the Security Council for Noncompliance yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Iran was not referred to the Security Council for Noncompliance'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Is the media powerful enough to convince the American public that Iran was referred to the UN Security Council for violations to the NPT when, in fact, it wasnt?'"
"Originally, the term referred to the rededication of the purified Temple after the Maccabees' stunning military victory."
"A pistole was originally a Spanish 2-escudo gold piece, but by the eighteenth century the term referred in English to any of a number of small gold coins of several European nations, with about the same low value."