transcription, транскрипция: [ ərɪə(r)z ]
1.
Arrears are amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier.
They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years...
N-PLURAL
2.
If someone is in arrears with their payments, or has got into arrears , they have not paid the regular amounts of money that they should have paid.
...the 300,000 households who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgages.
PHRASE : v-link PHR , PHR after v , oft amount PHR , PHR with/on n
3.
If sums of money such as wages or taxes are paid in arrears , they are paid at the end of the period of time to which they relate, for example after a job has been done and the wages have been earned.
Unemployment benefit is paid fortnightly in arrears.
PHRASE : PHR after v