'Payment' definitions:
Definition of 'payment'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Payment'
From: GCIDE
- Payment \Pay"ment\, n. [F. payment, paiement. See Pay to requite.]
- 1. The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. [1913 Webster]
- No man envieth the payment of a debt. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Punishment; chastisement. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'payment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bait,
- base pay,
- bribe,
- budgeting,
- carrot,
- castigation,
- charge,
- chastening,
- chastisement,
- compensation,
- condign punishment,
- contribution,
- correction,
- costing,
- costing-out,
- debit,
- debiting,
- deficit spending,
- deserts,
- disbursal,
- disbursement,
- disciplinary measures,
- discipline,
- dismissal wage,
- distribution,
- earnings,
- encouragement,
- escalator clause,
- escalator plan,
- expenditure,
- expense,
- fee,
- ferule,
- fillip,
- financial remuneration,
- gross income,
- guaranteed annual wage,
- hire,
- incentive,
- incitement,
- income,
- inducement,
- infliction,
- interest,
- invitation,
- judgment,
- judicial punishment,
- living wage,
- lure,
- minimum wage,
- nemesis,
- net income,
- outlay,
- pains,
- pains and punishments,
- pay,
- pay and allowances,
- payroll,
- penal retribution,
- penalty,
- penology,
- percentage,
- persuasive,
- portal-to-portal pay,
- profit,
- provocation,
- punishment,
- punition,
- purchasing power,
- real wages,
- remuneration,
- retribution,
- retributive justice,
- reward,
- salary,
- scheduling,
- scourge,
- severance pay,
- sliding scale,
- spending,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- take-home,
- take-home pay,
- taxable income,
- total compensation,
- wage,
- wage control,
- wage freeze,
- wage reduction,
- wage rollback,
- wage scale,
- wages,
- wages after deductions,
- wages after taxes,
- well-deserved punishment,
- what-for,
- whet
Words containing 'Payment'
- down payment,
- Equation of payments,
- To suspend payment,
- balance of payments,
- deferred payment,
- disability payment,
- final payment,
- immediate payment,
- medicare payment,
- order of payment,
- payment rate,
- rate of payment,
- regular payment,
- stop payment,
- support payment,
- token payment,
- transfer payment,
- balance of international payments,
- balance-of-payments problem