payments

NOUN

fee; installment of fee

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amount award cash deposit disbursement fee outlay pension premium refund reimbursement remittance reparation repayment restitution return reward salary settlement subsidy sum support wage

STRONG

acquittal advance alimony amends amortization annuity bounty defrayal defrayment discharge down hire indemnification part portion quittance reckoning recompense redress remuneration requital retaliation

WEAK

pay-off paying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

debt penalty

STRONG

whole

Example Sentences

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payments

"I was deceived. I thought they would welcome us well, but there was nothing to eat and they did not accept card payments."

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Sauer said that an “RBAC on the Road” program will seek to draw payments from user groups when they relocate to other pools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Kuczynski has always maintained the payments were not illegal.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Initiating coverage of the stock with an outperform rating, one of the investment bank’s analysts tells clients in a note that enterprises’ shift toward real-time payments will underpin growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship's, concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro