Crossword clues for deferment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deferment \De*fer"ment\, n. [See 1st Defer.] The act of delaying; postponement. [R.]
My grief, joined with the instant business,
Begs a deferment.
--Suckling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from defer (v.1) + -ment. As a word for "conditional exemption from a military draft" it dates to 1918, American English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act or instance of deferring or put off. 2 Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
WordNet
n. act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement, deferral]
Usage examples of "deferment".
To the War Manpower Commission, in the case of noncomplying individuals, directing the entry of appropriate orders relating to the modification or cancellation of draft deferments or employment privileges, or both.
When the professors learned that students who did not maintain a certain grade point average could lose their deferments and be drafted, they decided not to give any grades.
Years ago he had held a series of Selective Service deferments through Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
So the Pentagon scoured the long-forgotten series of deferments and scores of young unattached, childless lawyers obtainable meat were sent unrefusable invitations in which was explained the meaning of the word "deferment" as opposed to the word "annulment.
Johnson’s decision triggered another shot of Vietnam guilt: like Johnson, I didn’t believe graduate students should have draft deferments, but I didn’t believe in our Vietnam policy either.
Unable to supply the sharply increased quota of men under existing guidelines, the Orange County, California, Draft Board, with whom I had registered, decided to eliminate student deferments for everyone who did not have a “war essential major.
When draft deferments for graduate students got the ax, I would be in my first year of graduate school.
I don’t remember, and my diary doesn’t indicate, whether I asked Jeff to talk to the local board before or after I learned that graduate deferments had been extended to a full academic year.
I remember him cursing about how all the rich kids got deferments but he couldn't.
Your student deferments kept you out of Vietnam, Tip, so you never saw what I saw: stooped peasants in the rice paddies who never made a dime in their lives but who had more dignity in the last joint of their little finger than a lot of highly paid lawyers and chief executives I can name.
His back had since healed, something the draft board would likely have overlooked, but for Pearson's frenetic letter-writing campaign to the Army demanding a review of Schine's deferment.
It worked so totally well--I have unlimited deferment now provided I don't give up my studies or flunk out.
But there's more and more talk about phasing out student deferments, and I've been called for a physical.