Synonyms of payments

payments

noun

plural of payment

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• repayments
• compensations
• disbursements
• remittances
• reimbursements
• renderings
• remitments
• remunerations
• prepayments
• overpayments

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• underpayments
• nonpayments

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wages
• pays
• compensations
• salaries
• reparations
• considerations
• remittances
• reimbursements
• repayments
• deposits
• expenditures
• outlays
• rentals
• refunds
• stipends
• adjustments
• settlements
• remunerations
• recompenses
• indemnities
• disbursements
• rebates
• prepayments
• overpayments
• restitutions
• requitals
• rents
• recoupments
• redresses

3

as in salaries

the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services

your payment will be issued as a weekly check

Synonyms & Similar Words

• salaries
• wages
• pays
• paychecks
• stipends
• emoluments
• pay envelopes
• hires
• packets
• repayments
• earnings
• reimbursements
• profits
• minimum wages
• compensations
• nominal wages
• living wages
• reparations
• remittances
• overtimes
• returns
• restitutions
• recoupments
• take-home pays
• takings
• double times
• remunerations
• recompenses
• yields
• time and a halfs
• redresses
• requitals

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of payments

The subsidy headlined a gaudy incentive package offering property and sales tax exemptions, discount electricity and payments for infrastructure in exchange for about 9,000 jobs. — Mark Dee august 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Aug. 2026

Meanwhile, reports have emerged of a minor vulnerability affecting the Bitkey bitcoin hardware wallet developed by Jack Dorsey’s Block payments company. — Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

After all, before the No Surprises Act, consultants had emerged to help out-of-network physicians recover payments from patients. — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026

There will be no points deduction for the secret payments in the Roman Abramovich era that, rather awkwardly, helped to put Chelsea into such a position that £10m is the kind of money inside Stamford Bridge to be shrugged at. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

According to the Capital Chronicle, the DNR has taken in at least $109 million in wetlands payments from landowners, but many projects supposed to offset disruption have stalled since the program’s launch in 2018. — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026

However, the information behind those payments can be far more valuable. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Haiti financed the payments from French banks, and did not finish paying the associated interest on the debt until 1947. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026