transcription, транскрипция: [ peɪmənt ]
( payments)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A payment 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 payments...
The fund will make payments 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 payment of a sum which he had claimed was owed to him.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of/for n
3.
see also balance of payments , down payment