(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is an amount of money that is paid to someone, or the act of paying this money.
Thousands of its customers are in arrears with loans and mortgage ~s...
The fund will make ~s of just over ?1 billion next year.
N-COUNT: oft n N, N to/of/on n
2.
Payment is the act of paying money to someone or of being paid.
He had sought to obtain ~ of a sum which he had claimed was owed to him.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of/for n
3.
see also balance of ~s , down ~