Usually means: Postponement of an obligation's fulfillment.
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  1. deferment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deferment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deferment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deferment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deferment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deferment, deferment: Wordnik
  7. deferment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deferment: Wiktionary
  9. deferment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deferment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deferment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deferment, deferment: Dictionary.com
  13. deferment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deferment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deferment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deferment: Rhymezone
  17. Deferment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deferment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. deferment: Free Dictionary
  20. deferment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. deferment: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEFERMENT: Accounting Glossary
  2. deferment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deferment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. deferment: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deferment)

noun:  An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
noun:  Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

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