payment
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English
Etymology
From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)
- (uncountable) The act of paying.
- (countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
- Antonyms: non-payment, nonpayment
- Hypernym: transaction
- Coordinate terms: credit, debit, withholding, garnishment, billing
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- “ […] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
- 2023 November 15, 'Industry Insider', “Outbreak of common sense”, in RAIL, number 996, page 68:
- In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines.
Derived terms
- advance payment
- back payment
- balloon payment
- bullet payment
- counter payment
- counter-payment
- dation in payment
- down payment
- e-payment
- equalization payment
- grease payment
- lubrication payment
- make off without payment
- making off without payment
- payment card
- payment in kind
- payment order
- payment schedule
- payment service
- payment terminal
- PITI payment
- pittance payment
- proof of payment
- severance payment
- time-payment
- transfer payment
- warrant of payment
Translations
the act of paying
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a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services
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