payment
51
1.0
- noun
- /ˈpeɪmənt/
:
pago
- Take this, Ford, as payment for ajob well done.
Like they they always say like the prestige of having our name on your resume should be payment enough or some BS like that.
- Like they they always say like the prestige of having our name on your resume should be payment enough or some BS like that.
Examples
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The artist accepted the painting as payment for his work.
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I'll gladly give it to you in payment for what you did for me.
Fiction book (1994) -
Like does that work even require payment if it can bring people value?
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You signed off on this work and took payment with him in the partnership.
Fiction book (1996) -
If seeing her father was the only payment she could make, then she would make it.
Fiction book (1990) -
But it would be another four years before the first payments began to arrive.
Fiction book (1991) -
Never before, my brothers, has our wool brought so rich a payment.
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Payment for all your kindness.
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Betty wires the money to a store in Aruba in payment for things they never sent her.
Fiction book (1992) -
Bantock says the dog gave him several large, finely cut diamonds as payment for the trip.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
328
1.3
To give something to someone to thank them for doing something good
231
1.0
An act of giving something back to its owner
214
3.6
Money given to pay someone for work and to make up for loss or injury
115
1.1
Money given back when someone paid too much or is not happy with what they bought
49
4.0
Money paid back to someone for costs they paid
48
3.4
An amount of money paid to someone as a reward, compensation, or winnings
34
2.9
Money you return after you borrowed it
24
3.2
One part of the total cost paid regularly over time
19
6.8
Giving money or help to make up for a wrong
9
7.0
An amount of money sent to someone in another country as payment or a gift
9
6.7
A payment of money from a fund or account
2
3.9
Final amount you give to finish a debt
1
6.3
Giving something back to someone because they helped you
1
5.0
A payment returned to customers as a reward
1
8.2
Something, usually money, given to reward effort or to make up for loss
1
9.5
Giving back a favor or returning harm in the same way
1
6.5
Money sent to someone in another place, often regularly to support family
1
4.0
A very small amount of money given to show you will pay later or to keep an agreement
Paying back borrowed money by the agreed date
Sending money to another person as a payment
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
70
3.1
A first payment you make when you buy something and pay the rest in later payments
- Formal
7
3.5
A regular payment one person gives to help pay for a child or former partner
4
3.4
Money given each month to a person who cannot work because of illness or injury
4
4.4
Money from the government that helps older or disabled people pay medical bills
- Formal
3
4.5
Money the government gives people who need help without goods or services
1
4.0
A very small amount of money given to show you will pay later or to keep an agreement
- Specialized
A system that pays doctors a fixed amount per patient for a set time even if they need more care
- Formal
Formal paper that tells a bank to pay a named person or company a set amount of money
How Complete
7
1.8
- Specialized
38
6.9
34
2.9
51
1.0
1
3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Payment can also mean 'something given in return' and it comes from the same parts pay + -ment, so think of repay or payback, where to pay is to 'give back'. So in this sense payment is what you give to 'return' or 'make up for' something.