deferment

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It’s the reason so many student-loan borrowers find themselves trapped in cycles of deferment, forbearance or minimum payments that allow balances to balloon rather than shrink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

If necessary, you can also look into deferment and forbearance options.

From Salon • May 3, 2025

In 1968, at age 22, he got a medical deferment for having bone spurs in his heels.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024

None has given a hard date, however, or said that there has been a deferment.

From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2023

As long as he was in school, he’d have a student deferment from the draft.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge