payment

See also: Payment

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay +‎ -ment.

PronunciationEdit

enPR: pāʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪmənt/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪmənt
Hyphenation: pay‧ment

NounEdit

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

English Wikipedia has articles on:

payment and payment app

Wikipedia Wikipedia

(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
Hypernym: transaction

Coordinate terms: credit, debit, withholding, garnishment, billing
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎^[1]:
  “ […] 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.
Antonyms: non-payment, nonpayment

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from payment

TranslationsEdit

the act of paying

Arabic: دَفْع‎ (ar) m (dafʿ)
Hijazi Arabic: دَفْع‎ m (dafʿ)
Armenian: վճարում (hy) (včarum)
Aromanian: platã f, arugã f
Azerbaijani: ödəniş (az)
Basque: ordainketa, ordaintze
Belarusian: апла́та f (apláta), пла́та f (pláta), плаце́ж m (placjéž)
Bulgarian: пла́щане (bg) n (pláštane), плате́ж (bg) m (platéž)
Catalan: pagament (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 付款 (zh) (fùkuǎn)
Czech: platba (cs) f
Danish: betaling (da) c
Dutch: betaling (nl) f
Estonian: makse
Finnish: maksu (fi)
French: paiement (fr) m, payement (fr) m
Galician: pagamento (gl) m, pago (gl) m, paga (gl) f
Georgian: გადასახადი (gadasaxadi)
German: Bezahlung (de) f
Greek: πληρωμή (el) f (pliromí)
Hungarian: fizetés (hu), kifizetés (hu), befizetés (hu), törlesztés (hu), kiegyenlítés (hu), lerovás, megfizetés
Indonesian: pembayaran (id)
Irish: íocaíocht f
Italian: pagamento (it) m
Japanese: 支払い (ja) (しはらい, shiharai), 弁済 (ja) (べんさい, bensai)
Korean: 지불(支拂) (ko) (jibul), 변제(辨濟) (ko) (byeonje)
Latin: pensiō f
Latvian: maksājums m
Lithuanian: mokėjimas (lt) m
Macedonian: плаќање n (plaḱanje)
Malay: bayaran (ms)
Maori: utunga
Norman: paiement m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: betaling (no) m or f
Persian: پرداخت‎ (fa) (pardâxt)
Polish: zapłata (pl) f, wypłata (pl) f, opłata (pl) f, płatność (pl) f
Portuguese: pagamento (pt)
Romanian: plată (ro) f, plătire (ro)
Russian: платёж (ru) m (platjóž), опла́та (ru) f (opláta), пла́та (ru) f (pláta), упла́та (ru) f (upláta), вы́плата (ru) f (výplata)
Scottish Gaelic: dìoladh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плаћање n

Roman: plaćanje n
Slovak: platba f
Slovene: plačilo n
Spanish: pago (es)
Swahili: malipo (sw)
Swedish: betalning (sv) c
Telugu: చెల్లింపు (te) (cellimpu)
Turkish: ödeme (tr)
Ukrainian: платі́ж m (platíž), пла́та f (pláta)
Welsh: talu (cy) m

a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services

Armenian: վարձատրություն (hy) (varjatrutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: ödəniş (az)
Basque: ordain
Belarusian: пла́та f (pláta)
Bulgarian: възнагражде́ние (bg) n (vǎznagraždénie)
Catalan: pagament (ca) m
Czech: platba (cs) f
Danish: betaling (da) c
Dutch: uitbetaling (nl) f, betaling (nl) f
Estonian: makse
Galician: pago (gl) m, pagamento (gl) m
German: Zahlung (de) f
Hungarian: fizetség (hu)
Irish: íocaíocht f
Latin: pensiō f
Latvian: maksājums m
Lithuanian: mokėjimas (lt) m, išmoka (lt) f
Macedonian: плаќање n (plaḱanje)
Maori: paremata, utunga, moni utu
Middle English: warisoun
Norwegian:
Bokmål: betaling (no) m or f
Polish: zapłata (pl) f
Portuguese: pagamento (pt) m
Romanian: plată (ro) f
Russian: пла́та (ru) f (pláta), вознагражде́ние (ru) n (voznagraždénije) (remuneration)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плаћање n

Roman: plaćanje n
Slovak: platba f
Slovene: plačilo n
Spanish: pago (es) m
Swahili: malipo (sw)
Tagalog: bayaran (tl)
Ukrainian: пла́та f (pláta)
Welsh: tâl (cy) m, taliad (cy) m