payment

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English

Etymology

From Old French paiement

Pronunciation

• enPR: pāʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪmənt/

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• Hyphenation: pay‧ment

Noun

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

1. (uncountable) The act of paying.
2. (countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

Synonyms

• scot

Derived terms

Terms derived from payment

• down payment
• equalization payment

• grease payment
• lubrication payment

• payment in kind

Translations

the act of paying

• Aromanian: platã f, arugã f
• Azerbaijani: ödəniş (az)
• Basque: ordainketa, ordaintze
• Bulgarian: плащане (bg) n (pláštane)
• Catalan: pagament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 付款 (zh) (fùkuǎn)

• Czech: platba (cs) f
• Dutch: betaling (nl) f
• Estonian: makse
• Finnish: maksu (fi)
• French: paiement (fr) m, payement (fr) m
• Georgian: გადასახადი (gadasaxadi)
• German: Bezahlung (de) f
• Greek: πληρωμή (el) f (pliromí)

• Hungarian: fizetés (hu), kifizetés (hu)
• Indonesian: pembayaran (id)
• Irish: íocaíocht f
• Italian: pagamento (it) m
• Japanese: 支払い (ja) (しはらい, shiharai)
• Malay: bayaran
• Norman: paiement m
• Portuguese: pagamento (pt)
• Romanian: plată (ro) f, plătire (ro)
• Russian: платёж (ru) m (platjóž), опла́та (ru) f (opláta), пла́та (ru) f (pláta)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìoladh m
• Spanish: pago (es)
• Swahili: malipo (sw)
• Swedish: betalning (sv) c
• Telugu: చెల్లింపు (te) (cellimpu)

a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services

• Azerbaijani: ödəniş (az)
• Basque: ordain
• Catalan: pagament (ca) m
• Czech: platba (cs) f
• Dutch: uitbetaling (nl) f, betaling (nl) f
• Estonian: makse
• German: Zahlung (de) f
• Hungarian: fizetség (hu)

• Irish: íocaíocht f
• Maori: paremata, utunga
• Portuguese: pagamento (pt) m
• Romanian: plată (ro) f
• Spanish: pago (es) m
• Swahili: malipo (sw)
• Tagalog: bayaran (tl)

Further reading

• payment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia