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/pˈeɪmənt/ Listen

noun

Payment n.

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. "No man envieth the payment of a debt."

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.

Punishment; chastisement. (R.)

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"Payment" Quotes from Famous Books

... does!" cried another, who then tried to explain to Kuiktuk that he must produce the gold-bearing creek before he was given the food in payment. ...

— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... worrying, Samuel. Look at this," and he pulled out a receipted bill. "His name, isn't it? 'Received in full payment— Six hundred dollars.' ...

— The Underdog • F. Hopkinson Smith

... of this subterraneous establishment threw aside an old wire that served as a poker, and demanded payment in advance. The child handed him the three cents, received his rum and ...

— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

... of course must be a person known to have property, will give a bond guaranteeing the regular payment of interest and premiums—that ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various

... peasant alike. That the god should receive a tenth of the good things which, it was believed, he had bestowed upon mankind, was not considered to be asking too much. There are many tablets in the British Museum which are receipts for the payment of the tithe to the great temple of the Sun-god at Sippara in the time of Nebuchadrezzar and his successors. From one of them we learn that Belshazzar, even at the very moment when the Babylonian empire was falling from his father's hands, nevertheless found an opportunity for paying ...

— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce

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