deferments
Official allowed postponements
Deferments are official postponements, typically of military service or debt payments.
A student deferment delays conscription until graduation.
Loan deferments suspend required payments temporarily: He applied for deferment of his student loans while in graduate school.
The singular deferment is more common; the plural appears when discussing multiple instances or a category of delays.
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- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- exemptionRelease from requirement
- serviceAid or maintenance
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
selective service · reserve · mobilization · induction · postponement · classification · Vietnam · deployment
Delaying to later
- delayEnforced waiting period
- continuanceSustained extension forward
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
proceedings · judgment · ruling · adjournment · motion · petition · filing · extension
Fulfilling a financial obligation
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- mortgageSecured home loan
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- forbearancePatient self-control, delayed enforcement
grace period · interest · creditor · debt · repayment · principal · arrears · extension
Act of registering officially
- studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
- universityHigher education institution
- collegeHigher education institution
- tuitionPayment for instruction
semester · scholarship · graduation · education · loan · financial aid · coursework · degree
draft
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- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- exemptionRelease from requirement
- serviceAid or maintenance
enlistment · selective service · reserve · mobilization · induction · postponement · classification · Vietnam · deployment · duty
postponement
Delaying to later
- delayEnforced waiting period
- continuanceSustained extension forward
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
hearing · proceedings · judgment · ruling · adjournment · motion · petition · filing · extension · deadline
payment
Fulfilling a financial obligation
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- mortgageSecured home loan
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
forbearance · grace period · interest · creditor · debt · repayment · principal · arrears · extension · restructuring
enrollment
Act of registering officially
- studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
- universityHigher education institution
- collegeHigher education institution
tuition · semester · scholarship · graduation · education · loan · financial aid · coursework · degree · undergraduate
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- war mobilizationmobilization, troop mobilization, military draft, selective service, mobilization orders
defermentsaccelerations
Velocity change rates
expeditions · advancements · rush orders · fast-tracking · hastening
defermentsenforcements
Acts compelling obedience
demands · collections · exactions · compulsions · requisitions
defermentscompletions
Acts of finishing
fulfillments · discharges · executions · performances · satisfactions
- draft defermentDelayed military service obligation
- student defermentDelayed conscription for academics
- medical defermentPostponement for health reasons
- loan defermentAuthorized postponement of repayments