deferment

Example Sentences

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Less than two weeks ago the deferment on the export license, which had been extended once, was set to expire after a full year.

From Los Angeles Times

One Muscovite told The Associated Press that his employer, a state-funded organization, gathered up the military registration cards of all male employees of fighting age and said it would get them deferments.

From Seattle Times

It will also allow them to count certain periods of deferment or forbearance as payments, including for cancer treatment and service in the military, AmeriCorps, National Guard or Peace Corps.

From New York Times

These periods include military service, economic hardship, deferments for cancer treatment and time served in the National Guard or AmeriCorps.

From Washington Post

"The military commissar told him he was not on the deferment list, so he had to be mobilised," Yerokhin said.

From Reuters