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Consumers, too, have their doubts about the pace of the economy, and some mer chants report a buyers' tendency to put off deferable "big-ticket" purchases� furniture, appliances, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

As of last week, college students in general will no longer be automatically deferable; they will be called when necessary to fulfill draft quotas.

From Time Magazine Archive

The skirts of the Gallic storm of 1830, that crushed the Bourbonic throne, destroyed the Wellington Administration, and made the Reform Bill no longer deferable, which the Whigs entered office to carry.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various