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deferment

/dih-fur-muhnt/US // dɪˈfɜr mənt //UK // (dɪˈfɜːmənt) //

延期,延期付款,缓期执行,递延

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of deferring or putting off; postponement.
    • : a temporary exemption from induction into military service.

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Examples

  • Yet, neither that ongoing deferment nor partial forgiveness will be enough.

  • There is no deferment, there is just pay 50 percent of your income, now.

  • When her second deferment is up this May, a judge will decide to send her back to Mexico or defer her again.

  • Her yearlong deferment expired in May 2010, and she was granted another year.

  • The hypocrisy police came out in full force: Wilson himself took a student deferment when his number came up in the draft in 1969.

  • Life is neither remembrance nor anticipation, neither regret nor deferment, but present realization.

  • An old minister of state, M. Deferment, reproached him to his teeth with privately selling the lives and liberties of the French.

  • The forging of the weapon, and its adequate preparation for use, are not matters susceptible of deferment until the crucial hour.

  • But deferment made the heart sick, and the brain and almost the stomach.

  • Theodosia argued for a deferment of the marriage, quoting Aristotle, that a man should not marry till he was thirty-six.