payment
See also: Payment
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Etymology
From Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PAYMENT paiement. Equivalent to pay + -mentCategory:English terms suffixed with -ment#PAYMENT.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeɪmənt/Category:English 2-syllable words#PAYMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PAYMENT, enPR: pāʹmənt
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PAYMENTAudios (General American): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PAYMENT(file) - Rhymes: -eɪməntCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪmənt#PAYMENTCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪmənt/2 syllables#PAYMENT
- Hyphenation: pay‧ment
Noun
payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)Category:English lemmas#PAYMENTCategory:English nouns#PAYMENTCategory:English uncountable nouns#PAYMENTCategory:English countable nouns#PAYMENTCategory:English countable nouns#PAYMENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PAYMENTCategory:Pages with entries#PAYMENTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PAYMENT
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#PAYMENT) The act of paying.
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#PAYMENT) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchangeCategory:English links with manual fragments#PAYMENT for goods or services, or the transactionCategory:English links with manual fragments#PAYMENT that conveys it.
- Synonym: consideration
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PAYMENT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PAYMENT
Derived terms
- advance payment
- autopayment
- back payment
- balloon payment
- bullet payment
- copayment
- counter payment
- counter-payment
- counterpayment
- cyberpayment
- dation in payment
- down payment
- e-payment
- equalization payment
- forepayment
- grease payment
- inpayment
- kick payment
- lubrication payment
- make off without payment
- making off without payment
- micropayment
- mispayment
- multipayment
- outpayment
- overpayment
- parachute payment
- payment card
- payment order
- payment schedule
- payment service
- payment terminal
- PITI payment
- pittance payment
- prepayment
- proof of payment
- repayment
- severance payment
- short payment
- taxpayment
- telepayment
- time-payment
- transfer payment
- underpayment
- warrant of payment
Translations
the act of paying
a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services
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