arrear

Example Sentences

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"My arrear just stems from a time when I was court-ordered to pay child support and back child support on an NBA salary," he said in an interview with NBC News.

From Salon • May 30, 2024

Every feeling was offended; and the forbearance of her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable goodwill of Mr. Weston’s temper.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

There was due on the 25th of March last, on the establishments, and for extraordinary expenses, an arrear amounting to £373,706 13s.

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely

Coleman senior calls on the Schoolmaster, who remarks that payment for his son's schooling is in arrear.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Their pay is eighty piastres a month, with rations of bread for themselves and of barley for their animals, but the pay is often nine months in arrear, or they receive it in depreciated paper.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)