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

Wang, who is pursuing reelection in November, also wants the measure to incentivize larger banks and Wall Street speculators who buy up distressed debts to not seek foreclosure as the first option when borrowers default on payments. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 19 July 2026

The third round of July Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. — Kiara Moore, The Washington Examiner, 19 July 2026

The hotel payments start five nights before a team’s first game and one night after it is eliminated. — Luis Andres Henao, Fortune, 19 July 2026

Lending institutions including those providing home mortgages and car loans should require that all student debt payments be kept current as a condition to borrowers incurring even more debt. — Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026

The payments included unsupported consulting fees, vacation compensation, and an IRA contribution. — Mark Price july 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

That design is now colliding with the most technologically fluid payments corridor on earth. — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

California’s richest residents would be able to spread the payments over five years. — 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