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

payment(n = noun.act) requital - an act of requiting; returning in kind;

is a kind of getting even, paying back, return

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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]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

payment, n.
1 the act or an instance of paying.
2 an amount paid.
3 reward, recompense.

Etymology

ME f. OF paiement (as PAY(1))

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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, whet

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ROGET 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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