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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun payment has 3 senses
- payment(n = noun.possession) Array - a sum of money paid or a claim discharged; Array has particulars: royalty, bonus, incentive, overpayment, underpayment, subscription, regular payment, blood money, recompense, refund, conscience money, support payment, reward, bribe, payoff, residual, benefit, lump sum, final payment, payoff, remission, remitment, remittal, remittance, quittance, repayment, token payment, penalty, pittance, insurance premium, premium, installment, deposit, down payment, satisfaction, credit, deferred payment, cash, immediate payment
- payment(n = noun.act) defrayal, defrayment - the act of paying money; Array is a kind of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
- payment(n = noun.act) requital - an act of requiting; returning in kind; Array is a kind of getting even, paying back, return
is a kind of cost
Antonym: nonpayment
Derived forms verb pay1, verb pay3, verb pay11
has particulars: amortisation, amortization, fee splitting, overpayment, prepayment, ransom, refund, repayment, remuneration, rendering, disbursal, disbursement, outlay, spending, tribute, underpayment
Antonym: nonpayment
Derived forms verb pay1, verb pay3, verb pay11
CIDE DICTIONARY
payment, n. [F. payment, paiement. See Pay to requite.].
- The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. [1913 Webster]"No man envieth the payment of a debt." [1913 Webster]
- That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Punishment; chastisement. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
payment, n.
1 the act or an instance of paying.
2 an amount paid.
3 reward, recompense.
1 the act or an instance of paying.
2 an amount paid.
3 reward, recompense.
Etymology
ME f. OF paiement (as PAY(1))
THESAURUS
payment
bait, base pay, bribe, budgeting, carrot, castigation, charge, chastening, chastisement, compensation, condign punishment, contribution, correction, costing, costing-out, debit, debiting, deficit spending, deserts, disbursal, disbursement, disciplinary measures, discipline, dismissal wage, distribution, earnings, encouragement, escalator clause, escalator plan, expenditure, expense, fee, ferule, fillip, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, incentive, incitement, income, inducement, infliction, interest, invitation, judgment, judicial punishment, living wage, lure, minimum wage, nemesis, net income, outlay, pains, pains and punishments, pay, pay and allowances, payroll, penal retribution, penalty, penology, percentage, persuasive, portal-to-portal pay, profit, provocation, punishment, punition, purchasing power, real wages, remuneration, retribution, retributive justice, reward, salary, scheduling, scourge, severance pay, sliding scale, spending, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, sweetener, sweetening, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, well-deserved punishment, what-for, whetROGET THESAURUS
payment
Payment
N payment, defrayment, discharge, acquittance, quittance, settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement, acknowledgment, release, receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands, voucher, salary, compensation, remuneration (reward), repayment, reimbursement, retribution, pay, money paid, ready money, stake, remittance, installment, payer, liquidator, pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead, paying, paid, owing nothing, out of debt, all straight, unowed, never indebted, to the tune of, on the nail, money down.Expenditure
N expenditure, money going out, out goings, out lay, expenses, disbursement, prime cost, circulation, run upon a bank, payment, pay, bribe, fee, footing, garnish, subsidy, tribute, contingent, quota, donation, pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment, investment, purchase, expending, expended, sumptuary, vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae.Reward
N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.
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