arrear

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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 banqueting and feasting, and all at a time when the treasury was depleted, when the civil and military forces had their payments in arrear, and when national debt heaped upon national debt.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville

At the same time the rents of the houses in Distaff Lane were heavily in arrear.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

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