Antonyms for payment


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pey-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpeɪ mənt


Definition of payment

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French paiement (13c.), from paiier (see pay (v.)).
  • noun fee; installment of fee
Example sentences :
  • I will enclose the second payment of her fee in a letter which I am writing to her.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • It was an express order for two hundred francs, in payment of a bit of verse.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • Then you will not object to any mode of payment I shall propose.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • If payment was offered, they shook their heads, and only asked for tidings of Europa.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • There had been some dispute about payment, and the Britisher had slapped the dragoman's face.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • The payment was small; in fact, only a few newspapers then paid anything for verse.
  • Extract from : « The Poems of Henry Kendall » by Henry Kendall
  • I am the medical officer, in consideration of a certain monthly payment.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • What I now wish to know is, what were your reasons for forbidding the payment of interest?
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • The elected physicians are not allowed to receive any payment whatever from their patients.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • It could not, then, be incumbent on her to let her life be taken in payment.
  • Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton

Synonyms for payment

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