payment

From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay +‎ -ment.

• enPR: pāʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪmənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmənt
• Hyphenation: pay‧ment

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

1. (uncountable) The act of paying.
2. (countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.

   Hypernym: transaction

   Coordinate terms: credit, debit, withholding, garnishment, billing

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎:

     “ […] 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.

   Antonyms: non-payment, nonpayment

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