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UK
/pˈeɪmənt/
]
[ US /ˈpeɪmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪmənt/ ]
NOUN
- a sum of money paid or a claim discharged
- an act of requiting; returning in kind
- the act of paying money
How To Use payment In A Sentence
- With more than a decade of contactless payment experience, the company has delivered tens of millions of chips to the market.
- This scheme enables you to budget the cost through fixed monthly payments.
- When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed.
- She was finally evicted in April for non-payment of rent .
- Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy.
- There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
- The payments on that car loan are in arrears by three months.
- Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.
- I believe it is unfair to penalise parents who miss the payment of this allowance due to this.
- To relieve anxiety about funeral costs, we will introduce a funeral payment of £600, available on request.