deferral
Example Sentences
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Vanguard said 14% of participants increased their retirement savings rate or payroll deferral percentage in 2025, while 8% decreased it.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
At Vanguard, the average deferral rate, or percentage of income that participants chose to contribute to their retirement plan, rose to 7.7% in 2024, a record.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Dorset Museum had hoped it could appeal to the Arts Council for a temporary export deferral to allow it more time to raise the money to keep it in the country and on public display.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Realmuto said that, like Kuyateh, tens of thousands of immigrants have been granted withholding or deferral relief over the course of several decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
His birthday was one of the last drawn, and anyway, as an undergraduate, he had been granted a deferral.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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