payment
The act of paying.
Example
“Payment will be made at the end of the month.”
Other meanings
An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in for goods or services, or the that conveys it.
Related words
- autopayment
- copayment
- counterpayment
- cyberpayment
- forepayment
- inpayment
- micropayment
- mispayment
- multipayment
- outpayment
- overpayment
- prepayment
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "paiement".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “payment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.