Definition of Payment

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Payment

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

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.

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Payment Quotations

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
Larry Bird

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
Rutherford B. Hayes

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
Nassau William Senior

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
Tom Selleck

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
Fay Wray

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.
Trevor Nunn

Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.
Matthew Lesko

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Elton Gallegly

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.
Robert C. Solomon

Payment Translations

payment in Danish is betaling
payment in Dutch is afbetaling
payment in Italian is pagamento, rimborso assegno
payment in Latin is erogatio, pensio
payment in Portuguese is pagamento
payment in Swedish is likvid, betalning, utbetalning

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