back payment
Example Sentences
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In a report presented to the council, the company confirmed it would seek back payment for the fuel used.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022
"NGN have confirmed that they will use standard rates provided to them by the gas regulator, Ofgem, to calculate a back payment going back to 2004 for unpaid for gas," the report said.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022
“I have no idea who he is,” Mr. Trump said in a statement emailed by an aide, “but if I held back payment, it was probably because he did a lousy job.”
From New York Times • May 11, 2016
But the supposed evidence of your experimental days is about as likely to show up as is the back payment for child support—that is, not likely at all.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2015
And industry received back payment from science with compound interest.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John