Meaning

2 senses
  1. An act or instance of deferring or putting off.

    Aufschub, Verzögerung

    відстро́ченняvidstróčennja, відкла́денняvidkládennja

    act of putting off to a future time

  2. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

    Aufschub

    відстро́чкаvidstróčka

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
act or instance of deferring:
postponement of military service:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act or instance of deferring:

Forms

plural: deferments
Singulardeferment
Pluraldeferments

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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