Deferment [noun]

Definition of Deferment:

postponement

Synonyms of Deferment:

● Moratorium

● Adjournment

● Deferral

● Delay

● Suspension

● Pause

● Stay

● Putting off


Opposite/Antonyms of Deferment:

● Advance

● Persistence

● Continuation


Sentence/Example of Deferment:

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

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.