deferment
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Deferment is similar, but subsidized loans — which generally have slightly better terms — won’t accrue interest while they’re paused.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022
Deferment is similar, but subsidized loans — which generally have slightly better terms — will not accrue interest while they are paused.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2021
Deferment prices have risen exponentially in recent years, so even the moderately well-off cannot escape.
From US News • Feb. 13, 2015
Deferment of our intellectual set weakens our national military, economic and political fiber.
From Time Magazine Archive
An old minister of state, M. Deferment, reproached him to his teeth with privately selling the lives and liberties of the French.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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