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Deferment

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or an instance of delaying or putting off.

n. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An act or instance of deferring or putting off.

n. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of delaying; postponement.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A putting off; postponement.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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

holdup delay

Hyponym

adjournment

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

postponement deferral delay procrastination adjournment

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

determent

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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