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

Bitcoin Payments May Return Through Abstraction The mistake is assuming Bitcoin payments have to return in their original form to matter. — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

For now, though, the team’s missing payments at the Coliseum could jeopardize their ability to finish out the 2026 regular season. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

Social Security serves more than 300 million Americans through benefit payments, retirement records, disability determinations, replacement cards and hundreds of millions of annual transactions. — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2026

Merchants have to pay interchange fees to the bank that issued the card as well as payments to the credit card network and the company processing the transaction. — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026

But now all payments will be cashless, requiring drivers to use a phone to access the company’s app, call or text to get a secure link to pay online. — Sara-James Ranta, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026