Synonyms of the word

deferral

• n. An act of deferring, a deferment.
• n. An accrual.
• n. A prepayment.

abeyance

• n. (law) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership…
• n. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
• n. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

deferment

• n. An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
• n. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

delay

• n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
• v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
• v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
• v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
• v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

holdup

• n. Alternative spelling of hold-up.

postponement

• n. A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.

recess

• n. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
• n. An inset, hole, space or opening.
• n. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
• n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
• n. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
• n. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
• n. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
• n. A secret or abstruse part.
• n. (botany, zoology) A sinus.
• v. To inset into something, or to recede.
• v. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
• v. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
• v. To make a recess in.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).

suspension

• n. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
• n. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
• n. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a…
• n. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
• n. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly…
• n. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which…
• n. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted…
• n. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an…
• n. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain…
• n. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car,…