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payment

[pey-muhnt] / ˈpeɪ mənt /


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Each letter bears the same heading – 'payment due to your pension plan' – and they span a period from 2020 to 2023.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

"We're starting to see 'payment shock'," says Montlake, referring to the nasty surprise people get when their fixed period expires and they're faced with higher rates.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2022

That in turn would get rid of the ‘payment by proxy’ structure of the industry, which would then have to focus on pleasing consumers instead of pleasing employers.

From Forbes • Sep. 4, 2011

All the effects obtained from the machine are thus strictly paid for; this 'payment for results' being, I would repeat, the inexorable method of nature.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Great men I know nothing of; but women can and do, without blame, sue their husbands-in-law for the full ‘payment of debt,’ and demand a divorce if they please in default. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet




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