deferment

noun de·fer·ment \ di-ˈfər-mənt \

|Updated on: 23 Jul 2018

Examples: deferment in a Sentence

Definition of deferment

: the act of delaying or postponing; specifically : official postponement of military service

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Examples of deferment in a Sentence

She requested a six-month deferment on her loan.
She requested deferment of her loan.
the policies of military deferment

Recent Examples of deferment from the Web

Trump himself never served in Vietnam, having received several deferments for education and medical reasons.

— alex fitzpatrick, Time, "Trump Says He Might Pardon Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali. What Did Ali Do?," 8 June 2018
In 2012, President Obama created the DACA policy, allowing young people without serious criminal records who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to apply for deportation deferments and work permits.

— anne ryman, azcentral, "Community colleges don't plan to appeal ruling denying in-state tuition to DACA students," 22 May 2018
The United Kingdom, Japan and Serbia have shortened their deferment periods to just a couple months.

— aaron randle, kansascity, "'Completely unreasonable': Gay men can donate blood — if they give up sex," 1 July 2018
Trump’s critics have never let him off the hook over military deferments that kept him from dining in a mess hall in Vietnam.

— david k. li, Fox News, "Trump 'very sad' over Anthony Bourdain's death," 9 June 2018
Despite having been educated at an elite private military academy, Donald Trump famously drew five draft deferments, including one for bone spurs in his feet.

— garrett m. graff, WIRED, "The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat," 15 May 2018
The Alameda County Office of Education, which provides fiscal oversight of district budgets, requested the analysis after Oakland Unified officials in December, facing a significant deficit, requested a deferment in state loan payments.

— jill tucker, SFChronicle.com, "Oakland schools in new mess over financial practices," 21 June 2018
In 1967—just before Donald Trump received his own medical deferment for heel spurs—Mueller started Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia.

— garrett m. graff, WIRED, "The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat," 15 May 2018
Upon Upon Deukmejian's graduation from law school, his student deferment expired and he was drafted into the Army, destined for a two-year infantry stint in Europe.

— claudia luther and richard c. paddock, latimes.com, "George Deukmejian dead at 89, public safety and law-and-order dominated two-term governor's agenda," 9 May 2018

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