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dunning

dunning

1 8.5
Repeated letters or messages asking someone to pay a debt
  • noun
  • /ˈdʌnɪŋ/
  • Specialized
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  • The collection agency sent multiple dunning letters demanding payment for his outstanding debt.

Examples

  • He was frustrated by the constant dunning notices for the overdue credit card bill.

  • After missing several payments, she started receiving dunning letters from the bank.

  • Does the city send dunning letters to all drug dealers within the city limits?

    Blog text (15)

  • "I suppose so." Katie McMichaels threw the original dunning letter in the trash.

    Fiction book (2002)

How Insistent

harassment
596 4.6
pursuit
157 4.0
dunning
  • Specialized
1 8.5
notice
  • Formal
276 3.4
reminder
342 1.0

Surface Forms

dunning singular
dunnings plural

Morphology

dunning = dun (transparent) = dun + ing

Regular gerund/nominalization from the verb 'dun'; the noun denotes the process or act of demanding payment and follows directly from the verb.

Etymology

Dunning comes from the old verb dun, which meant 'to demand payment'. So dunning is the repeated letters or calls you get when someone keeps asking you to pay a debt.