Deferment meaning

dĭ-fûr'mənt
The definition of a deferment is a postponement or delay of something to a later date.

When you get permission to stop paying student loans until you have graduated from college, this is an example of a deferment.

When you are drafted to serve in the army but are able to put it off until you've graduated from college, this is an example of a deferment.

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The act or an instance of delaying or putting off.
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Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
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A deferring or being deferred; postponement.
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An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
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Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
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Origin of deferment

defer +‎ -ment

Sentence Examples

  • As if sensing the same, the blonde bowed her head in deferment without moving.

  • In order to assist the young kingdom of Bulgaria, which could only with great difficulty and with much damage to its resources have found means to indemnify Turkey for this serious breach of treaty engagements, the Russian government intervened, and proposed as compensation to the Turkish government the deferment for forty years of the annual payment (£T350,000) of the 1877 war indemnity.

  • Deferment is also in effect while you are still enrolled in college.

  • deferment of fees be appropriate for part time study?

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