Deferment

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  • noun. The act or an instance of delaying or putting off.
  • noun. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A putting off; postponement.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of delaying; postponement.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
  • noun. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. act of putting off to a future time
    • Word Usage
    "From the Boston Globe: As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    delay  holdup  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    adjournment  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    determent  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Britannic  billion-a-year  cancellations  communiqu  devilment  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adjournal  adjournment  breathing  cunctation  deferral  
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