noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rent arrears British English (= money that you owe because you have not paid your rent )
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The most common debts were rent arrears.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mortgage
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The Harrises were given two weeks to pay off mortgage arrears of £8,000.
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The Harris family had been given just two weeks to find eight thousand pounds in mortgage arrears .
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Three quarters involved unpaid rent or mortgage arrears .
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Inequality Building society mortgage arrears have risen considerably in the last few years.
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The Future 90 deal is available to borrowers who have £1,000 of county court judgments and three months of mortgage arrears .
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This year 75,000 people have lost their homes through mortgage arrears .
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To deal with priority debts - rent and mortgage arrears , heating and lighting.
rent
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Argue, take advice - whatever - but rent arrears are a certain route to eviction.
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Now I've been informed that I have £200 rent arrears .
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Council tenants' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million, the Audit Commission reveals.
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Latest figures show rent arrears stand at £10.8m for former tenants and £7.9m for current tenants.
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Except in the case of rent arrears , almost anyone can act as a private bailiff.
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Council house rent arrears amounted to over £1m, though they are at long last being reduced.
tax
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Mr Clark says his department will be collecting poll tax arrears for years to come.
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Meanwhile, in August he had been ordered to pay nearly F19,000,000 in tax arrears and associated fines.
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Lagerfeld owed $ 12.5m in tax arrears .
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fall
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Pat Rutter, 37, fell into arrears totalling £5,000 after she separated from her husband two years ago.
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Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent.
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The problem of a borrower who fell into arrears through no fault of his own should be handled sympathetically and positively.
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The assignee of a lease fell into arrears with the rent and the landlords brought an action against him in 1941.
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In February 1982, after C. and D. had fallen into arrears on the mortgage payments the building society obtained possession.
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But the Hammonds fell into arrears in payment of the mortgage instalments due to the building society.
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However, after changes in the housing benefit regulations, his substantial income dropped and he fell into arrears with mortgage payments.
pay
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The Harrises were given two weeks to pay off mortgage arrears of £8,000.
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She now has a fortnight to pay off the arrears if she and her seven children are to keep their home.
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What is needed is three simultaneous negotiations that I plan to undertake: One is to convince Congress to pay our arrears .
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If interest payments are waived, the society is not obliged to pay arrears of interest in future years.
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Even people in work can find their salaries are slashed, or routinely paid months in arrears .
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They've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week.
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You will be paid monthly in arrears at the rate of perannum. 4.
reduce
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The banks offered a 30 percent cut and asked for a US$1,000 million payment to reduce interest arrears of US$8,000 million.
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Richardson reduced the arrears before a mistake by Walker allowed Olney to equalise.
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Liphook rallied and Hight reduced the arrears .
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John Gallagher reduced the arrears with a penalty and put Leeds ahead when he converted an Innes touchdown.
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Bush added the conversion to reduce the arrears to 15-10.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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When will America pay its arrears to the U.N.?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If interest payments are waived, the society is not obliged to pay arrears of interest in future years.
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Long-term arrears continued to rise as societies tried to keep families in their homes.
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Payment will be made in arrears every four weeks or quarterly, whichever you prefer.
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Sir George said that arrears represented 8.5 percent of the total rent collectable in the 1990/91 financial year.
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The difference was exacerbated by Parliament's refusal to pay off the army's arrears of pay.
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The original proposal was for no guaranteed funding and payment to be in arrears .