1
as in paying
the act of offering money in exchange for goods or services
they are very prompt in the payment of their credit card bills
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2
as in pay
something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services
our payment for all the work we did barely covered our expenses we finally mailed our last car payment last week
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as in salary
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
your payment will be issued as a weekly check
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Recent Examples of payment
The deceit involves texts demanding immediate payments for unpaid tolls, some showing a dollar amount for what is supposedly owed, coupled with a link that takes unsuspecting victims to a page to enter their bank or credit card information, the federal agency relayed.
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2025
Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them.
—Rachel Scott, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2025
According to the Associated Press, DOGE was granted access to Treasury Department records, including Social Security and Medicare payment systems.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
More politics news: Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to restrict DOGE access to information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2025
Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them.
—Rachel Scott, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2025
According to the Associated Press, DOGE was granted access to Treasury Department records, including Social Security and Medicare payment systems.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
More politics news: Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to restrict DOGE access to information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for payment
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Listen to this article Senator J.D. Ford, D-Indianapolis, attempted to amend a bill making school board elections partisan to only include a pay raise for board members, but that amendment failed Thursday.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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San Diego officials say the effort to raise user fees is being propelled partly by inflation increasing the city’s costs for equipment and maintenance at its facilities and partly to offset the cost of generous pay raises given to nearly all city employees since 2023.—
Jeanne Rawdin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Palace, for all their relative financial might, cannot match a combination of the world-class facilities at Chelsea’s Cobham site, for example, and the potential salaries on offer at bigger clubs.—
Matt Woosnam,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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But even those limited activities have been disrupted because NGOs don’t have money to pay the salaries of aid workers and, in some cases, USAID stop-work orders are still in place. CNN has reached out to USAID for comment.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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According to its latest financial report, from its inception in 2012 through Jan. 30, the bureau had returned $19.7 billion to 195 million people, via actual compensation from financial firms, reductions in loan principal and canceled debts.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Artists say their work has been used by the AI programs to train models without their permission or financial compensation.—
Carlie Porterfield,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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The analysis found that all nations involved in a trade war experience a reduction in real wages, with farmers suffering the greatest losses on average.—
Jack Randall,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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From 2018 to 2022, individuals and organizations from blue states contributed nearly 60% of all federal tax receipts but only received 53% of all federal contributions to states in the form of either direct payments, grants, contracts, or wages.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Payment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payment. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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