payment

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English

Etymology

From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pāʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪmənt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪmənt
• Hyphenation: pay‧ment

Noun

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

1. (uncountable) The act of paying.
2. (countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.

   Synonym: consideration

   Antonyms: non-payment, nonpayment

   Hypernym: transaction

   Coordinate terms: credit, debit, withholding, garnishment, billing

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

   • 2023 November 15, 'Industry Insider', “Outbreak of common sense”, in RAIL, number 996, page 68:

     In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines.

Derived terms

• advance payment
• back payment
• balloon payment
• bullet payment
• counter payment
• counter-payment
• dation in payment
• down payment
• e-payment
• equalization payment
• grease payment
• lubrication payment
• make off without payment
• making off without payment
• payment card
• payment in kind
• payment order
• payment schedule
• payment service
• payment terminal
• PITI payment
• pittance payment
• proof of payment
• severance payment
• time-payment
• transfer payment
• warrant of payment

 

Translations

the act of paying

• Arabic: دَفْع (ar) m (dafʕ)

  Hijazi Arabic: دَفْع m (dafʕ)

• Armenian: վճարում (hy) (včarum)
• Aromanian: platã f, arugã f
• Azerbaijani: ödəniş (az)
• Basque: ordainketa, ordaintze
• Belarusian: апла́та f (apláta), пла́та f (pláta), плаце́ж m (placjéž)
• Bulgarian: пла́щане (bg) n (pláštane), плате́ж (bg) m (platéž)
• Catalan: pagament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 付款 (zh) (fùkuǎn)

• Czech: platba (cs) f
• Danish: betaling (da) c
• Dutch: betaling (nl) f
• Estonian: makse
• Finnish: maksu (fi)
• French: paiement (fr) m, payement (fr) m
• Galician: pagamento (gl) m, pago (gl) m, paga (gl) f
• Georgian: გადასახადი (gadasaxadi)
• German: Bezahlung (de) f
• Greek: πληρωμή (el) f (pliromí)
• Hindi: भुगतान (hi) (bhugtān)
• Hungarian: fizetés (hu), kifizetés (hu), befizetés (hu), törlesztés (hu), kiegyenlítés (hu), lerovás (hu), megfizetés (hu)
• Indonesian: pembayaran (id)
• Ingrian: makso
• Irish: íocaíocht f
• Italian: pagamento (it) m
• Japanese: 支払い (ja) (しはらい, shiharai), 入金 (ja) (にゅうきん, nyūkin)
• Korean: 지불(支拂) (ko) (jibul), 변제(辨濟) (ko) (byeonje)
• Latin: pensiō f
• Latvian: maksājums m
• Lithuanian: mokėjimas (lt) m
• Macedonian: плаќање n (plaḱanje)
• Malay: pembayaran
• Maori: utunga
• Norman: paiement m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: betaling (no) m or f

• Persian: پرداخت (fa) (pardâxt)
• Polish: zapłata (pl) f, wypłata (pl) f, opłata (pl) f, płatność (pl) f
• Portuguese: pagamento (pt)
• Romanian: plată (ro) f, plătire (ro)
• Russian: платёж (ru) m (platjóž), опла́та (ru) f (opláta), пла́та (ru) f (pláta), упла́та (ru) f (upláta), вы́плата (ru) f (výplata)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìoladh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плаћање n

  Roman: plaćanje n

• Slovak: platba f
• Slovene: plačilo n
• Spanish: pago (es) m, pagamento (es) m, pagamiento (es) m
• Swahili: malipo (sw)
• Swedish: betalning (sv) c
• Telugu: చెల్లింపు (te) (cellimpu)
• Turkish: ödeme (tr)
• Ukrainian: платі́ж m (platíž), пла́та f (pláta)
• Urdu: ادائیگی f (adā'īgī)
• Welsh: talu (cy) m

a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services

• Armenian: վարձատրություն (hy) (varjatrutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: ödəniş (az)
• Basque: ordain
• Belarusian: пла́та f (pláta)
• Bulgarian: възнагражде́ние (bg) n (vǎznagraždénie)
• Catalan: pagament (ca) m
• Czech: platba (cs) f
• Danish: betaling (da) c
• Dutch: uitbetaling (nl) f, betaling (nl) f
• Estonian: makse
• Galician: pago (gl) m, pagamento (gl) m
• German: Zahlung (de) f
• Hindi: शुल्क (hi) (śulk), भुगतान (hi) (bhugtān)
• Hungarian: fizetség (hu)
• Irish: íocaíocht f
• Latin: pensiō f
• Latvian: maksājums m
• Lithuanian: mokėjimas (lt) m, išmoka (lt) f
• Macedonian: плаќање n (plaḱanje)
• Maori: paremata, utunga, moni utu
• Middle English: warisoun
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: betaling (no) m or f

• Polish: zapłata (pl) f
• Portuguese: pagamento (pt) m
• Romanian: plată (ro) f
• Russian: пла́та (ru) f (pláta), вознагражде́ние (ru) n (voznagraždénije) (remuneration)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плаћање n

  Roman: plaćanje n

• Slovak: platba f
• Slovene: plačilo n
• Spanish: pago (es) m
• Swahili: malipo (sw)
• Tagalog: bayaran (tl)
• Ukrainian: пла́та f (pláta)
• Welsh: tâl (cy) m, taliad (cy) m

See also

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