Act of postponing

Usage examples of deferral.

From family sources, Dunn produced a $78,000 down payment and agreed to a one-year deferral on starting payments on the balance -- none of which John ever intended to collect.

From family sources, Dunn produced a $78,000 down payment and agreed to a one-year deferral on starting payments on the balance -- none of which John ever intended to collect.

Of course, once she showed, she was immediately fired from her job as dancing slave girl, her obvious condition too blatant a reminder of consequences in a town whose very existence depended upon the deferral of consequences until, that is, your accounts, financial, physical, and emotional, had been thoroughly cleared.

True enough, but that pressure for deferral was known to every member of the Cabinet, and to more than a few newspapermen.

The only issue not resolved on a Blue-File deferral was the business of driving with a DUI-suspended license.

Excess, delirium, anxiety, sublimity, preposterousness, undecidability, the mise en abîme of binary oppositions, the breakdown of representational order: these are all consequences -- or better, hi-tech "special effects" -- of presence itself, and not (as the deconstructionists too simply suppose) of the critique or deferral of presence.

Fortunately, Caroline, who had devoted years to making an unlikely success of the Washington Tribune, was used to drudgery and the deferral of pleasure.

He had been a college professor in the sixties who had grown bored with his work and his deferral, so he had enlisted.

What about the Problems of a President, the Backward Passes of a Footballer, the Deferrals of a Dean, the Odd Volumes of a Librarian, the Footnotes of a Ph.

The communal deferral of illness in straitened times was a phenomenon of which he had heard but never previously witnessed, and every time that he was apprised of an Allied success he had set to worrying about the inevitable flood of maladies that would occur after the liberation.