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  1. noun The act of paying or the state of being paid.
  2. noun An amount paid: received a large payment.
  3. noun One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.

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  • And if you don't use judgment, the payment is almost certain to be Disaster. —  Analog May, 1971
  • The interest rate will remain the same over the life of the loan and the payment is the same each and every month. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Even if you get the same interest rate, it doesn't necessarily mean your payment will be the same. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • If you have a fixed rate mortgage, the payment will be the same at the 5-year point and contrary to the guru gibberish that is often strewn about, expenses are going up at least as fast as rents. —  BiggerPockets Forums
  • In the end, he put our croft name in twice, which meant the payment was accepted but will cause more conniptions in the various credit systems as our name won't match with many of the other weird and wonderful combinations floating about the electronic swamp. —  Musings from a Stonehead
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  1. Early modern English also paiment; from Old French (and F.) payement = Provencal pagamen, paiamen = Spanish Portuguese Italian pagamento, payment, from Middle Latin *pacamentum, payment, from pacare, pay: see pay.
 

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