arrearage

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Even then, water companies must choose to participate in the arrearage programs; those who don’t exclude their customers from financial aid.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Last month, the Chase Lloyd House Board of Trustees, which oversees the mansion, approved a $24,000 grant from its endowment to help pay off rent arrearage for women living in Annapolis public housing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

However, earned surplus, out of which dividend arrears would have to be paid, still amounted to only about a third of the arrearage.

From Time Magazine Archive

By removing the arrearage barrier to fresh dividends, the directors hoped to divide future profits among all classes of stockholders.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this, it must be noted, was an account of money actually expended in the progress of the war; not for arrearage of pay; for it will be recollected Washington accepted no pay.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington