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payment

n. a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

Payment

n. [the act of giving money in exchange for goods or services]

requital, payment

n. an act of requiting; returning in kind

payment, defrayal, defrayment

n. the act of paying money

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compensation

n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

pension

n. a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

indemnification

n. an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance

reparation

n. (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors; "Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I"

income

n. the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

reimbursement

n. compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.; "he received reimbursement for his travel expenses"

wages, reward, payoff

n. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"

annuity, rente

n. income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments; "his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity"

subsidy

n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public; "a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence"

stipend

n. a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose

toll

n. a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

expense

n. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"

wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary

n. something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

retribution, requital

n. a justly deserved penalty

retribution, requital

n. a justly deserved penalty

punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation

n. the act of punishing

expending, expenditure

n. the act of spending money for goods or services

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nonpayment, default, nonremittal

n. loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

Nonpayment

n. [the lack of payment]

evasion, nonpayment

n. the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"

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