Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of paying or the state of being paid.
- noun An amount paid.
- noun One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of paying; the delivery of money as payment, in the course of business.
- noun More specifically, in law, the discharge of a pecuniary obligation by money or what is accepted as the equivalent of a specific sum of money; “the satisfaction, by or in the name of the debtor, to the creditor, of what is due, with the object to put an end to the obligation” (Goudsmit).
- noun The thing given in discharge of a debt or fulfilment of a promise; recompense; requital; reward.
- noun Hence, figuratively, chastisement; punishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
- noun 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.
- noun rare Punishment; chastisement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The act of
paying . - noun countable A sum of
money paid in exchange forgoods orservices .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sum of money paid or a claim discharged
- noun an act of requiting; returning in kind
- noun the act of paying money
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Yearly minimum payment increases of about 7.5 of base minimum payment\%?
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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This latest “twist” would promise providers a 10-15 percent boost in payment from the current Medicare rates (bringing the payments of the public option closer to what private insurers now pay) but would allow the government to use the new public program to spearhead payment reforms that would, in the long run, lower overall health care spending.
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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Fees will increase depending on the level of effort necessary to obtain payment from the vehicle owner.
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