1
as in repayments
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 wages
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 salaries
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 payments
California’s richest residents would be able to spread the payments over five years.
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Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
The first wave of Social Security payments for July is scheduled to be distributed this week.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
Shares of the payments giant touched a new 52-week high on Thursday, and the stock is up more than 3% in 2026.
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Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
5 July 2026
On Larson’s signature issue of Social Security, Fortune says the best move would be to eliminate the cap on payments into the system.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2026
These businesses live or die by people answering phones, booking jobs, chasing payments and calming down upset customers.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
The settlement says cash payments will be proportional to the length of your YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream subscription.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 July 2026
The August 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 27 days.
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Sydney Topf,
The Washington Examiner,
4 July 2026
Not Carrying Cash During the pandemic, Japan got a lot better about accepting digital payments, but there are still lots of places that only want cold, hard cash, especially small businesses.
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Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2026
Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
The first wave of Social Security payments for July is scheduled to be distributed this week.
—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
Shares of the payments giant touched a new 52-week high on Thursday, and the stock is up more than 3% in 2026.
—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
5 July 2026
On Larson’s signature issue of Social Security, Fortune says the best move would be to eliminate the cap on payments into the system.
—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2026
These businesses live or die by people answering phones, booking jobs, chasing payments and calming down upset customers.
—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
The settlement says cash payments will be proportional to the length of your YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream subscription.
—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 July 2026
The August 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 27 days.
—
Sydney Topf,
The Washington Examiner,
4 July 2026
Not Carrying Cash During the pandemic, Japan got a lot better about accepting digital payments, but there are still lots of places that only want cold, hard cash, especially small businesses.
—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for payments
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Humboldt Park Health was in compliance with the terms of its hospital assessment repayments as of late April, but not in compliance with the terms of its repayment agreement for advances as of February.
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What to know about Social Security repayments Those who have been overpaid by the Social Security Administration and haven't begun the repayment process may have noticed their monthly benefits shrinking.
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For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.
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Anthropic gives serious attention to displacement, including the possibility of durable pressure on wages and employment, while the Vatican insists that work is tied to dignity, participation and citizenship.
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While first-round picks are slotted into salaries through the NBA’s rookie scale, there isn’t as much structure with second-round selections.
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Those aren’t disqualifying salaries in a rising cap world, but the preference should be snagging plug-ins who are willing sign short-term, such as Matt Grzelcyk (who also has ties to Sullivan), Ville Heinola or Jeremy Lauzon.
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This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.
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Still, Fiedler shows convincingly enough that American writers’ attempts to adapt the seduction narrative to our concerns—to reimagine it so as to preserve our enduring sense of ourselves as innocents—explain our literature’s peculiar aversions and resultant compensations.
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Just to cover the city’s various bond measures, the owner of a home with an assessed value of $1 million pays around $1,145 annually.
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Even with premiums, co-pays and deductibles, the federal government cannot afford Medicare-for-some.
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While class members could, in theory, continue selling their claims after that point, industry participants generally expect the market to dry up once buyers can no longer receive direct disbursements from the QSF.
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The funds are often split into two disbursements — one for the fall semester and one for the spring.
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The sides also compromised on financial relief for Iran, which initially demanded at least $500 billion in reparations, one of the regional officials said.
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Collective, which advocates for reparations, land returns for Native Americans, bonds for newborns and a universal basic income.
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“Payments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payments. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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