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    payment


    1. Looking forward to the rest of your payment


    2. This payment is irrespective of the actual expenses incurred by the individual


    3. payment on the mortgage


    4. 5% on each weekly payment of €250


    5. “They are losers, who stupidly make do with 140,000 drachmas a month; they are cyphers, all of them!” she cries pompously and goes on with an air of profundity: “A businessman wants to earn as much as possible, this is natural! He will pay you as little as he can, unless you prove to him you deserve to be given something more!” … “A clever businessman will hire a secretary who will work for him for a month or so ''on trial'', then he will tell her she is incompetent and he will fire her without paying her a dime; then he will hire another stupid chick who will work for him for another month without payment, then another one will take her place, and so on, until he finds the one who will satisfy him fully” harangues Diana, showing her admiration for bosses


    6. old hunter refused to take payment for his services


    7. why he would return to a place he feared so much without payment the old


    8. We have received a portion as a down payment, if you will, but there is a pouring out of that Spirit to come at the end of the age that will eclipse what we see and understand now


    9. “I thought the invite to the party was payment


    10. As payment and tribute to Lady Ariel for giving her son a chance at such a grand future, she made a beautiful quilt for Andrew and Emily

    11. and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made


    12. arrange payment for us all in the morning


    13. The Sportsman and his companions, after completing satisfactory negotiations and making due payment for rod and reel, went back to the Hasting's Equipment Store


    14. The letters’ll be going out to parents before the end of term but we wondered if you’d be happy to do the same as last year, with the payment cards


    15. I shall endeavor to fulfill my several obligations to you in just payment for your faith in me


    16. “No payment has been received since then leaving 18 weeks of interest at 12% compounded weekly plus the principal meaning that you now owe me $370,348


    17. For years Minos demanded a payment of youths from Athens to feed the creature


    18. The demand for those who live by wages, it is evident, cannot increase but in proportion to the increase of the funds which are destined to the payment of wages


    19. The funds destined for the payment of wages, the revenue and stock of its inhabitants, may be of the greatest extent; but if they have continued for several centuries of the same, or very nearly of the same extent, the number of labourers employed every year could easily supply, and even more than supply, the number wanted the following year


    20. upon their promissory-notes, of which payment, either in whole or in part may be demanded at pleasure

    21. and the succeeding crop is mortgaged for the payment


    22. ” You are welcome to bring your credit cards or cheque books to Reception where a payment will be requested to reinstall those privileges you have been enjoying


    23. “Very much so Lemoss, for they have brought forward the final payment by this month’s end, your Uncle Todd’s budgeted for payment in Ort


    24. It sometimes happened, however, that the landlord would stipulate, that he should be at liberty to demand of the tenant, either the annual payment in kind or a certain sum of money instead of it


    25. The price at which the payment in kind was in this manner exchanged for a certain sum of money, is in Scotland called the conversion price


    26. Imorbis withered beneath his cloak of the demon wind, expecting the Maker would now require payment for the sins he committed


    27. As for the payment, the


    28. But the paper cannot go abroad; because at a distance from the banks which issue it, and from the country in which payment of it can be exacted by law, it will not be received in common payments


    29. The payment of the bill, when it becomes due, replaces to the bank the value of what had been advanced, together with a clear profit of the interest


    30. Many people would immediately perceive that they had more of this paper than was necessary for transacting their business at home; and as they could not send it abroad, they would immediately demand payment for it from the banks

    31. There would immediately, therefore, be a run upon the banks to the whole extent of this superfluous paper, and if they showed any difficulty or backwardness in payment, to a much greater extent ; the alarm which this would occasion necessarily increasing the run


    32. A banking company which issues more paper than can be employed in the circulation of the country, and of which the excess is continually returning upon them for payment, ought to increase the quantity of gold and silver which they keep at all times in their coffers, not only in proportion to this excessive increase of their circulation, but in a much greater proportion; their notes returning upon them much faster than in proportion to the excess of their quantity


    33. When those correspondents afterwards drew upon them for the payment of this sum, together with the interest and commission, some of those banks, from the distress into which their excessive circulation had thrown them, had sometimes no other means of satisfying this draught, but by drawing a second set of bills, either upon the same, or upon some other correspondents in London; and the same sum, or rather bills for the same sum, would in this manner make sometimes more than


    34. The payment of the bill, when it becomes due, replaces to the bank the value of what it had advanced, together with the interest


    35. If, before it came to the person who presents it to the acceptor for payment, it had passed through the hands of several other persons, who had successively advanced to one another the contents of it, either in money or goods, and who, to express that each of them had in his turn received those contents, had all of them in their order indorsed, that is, written their names upon the back of the bill; each indorser becomes in his turn liable to the owner of the bill for those contents, and, if he fails to pay, he becomes too, from that moment, a bankrupt


    36. In reality B in London owes nothing to A in Edinburgh; but he agrees to accept of A 's bill, upon condition, that before the term of payment he shall redraw upon A in Edinburgh for the same sum, together with the interest and a commission, another bill, payable likewise two months after date


    37. Though the bills upon which this paper had been advanced were all of them repaid in their turn as soon as they became due, yet the value which had been really advanced upon the first bill was never really returned to the banks which advanced it ; because, before each bill became due, another bill was always drawn to somewhat a greater amount than the bill which was soon to be paid: and the discounting of this other bill was essentially necessary towards the payment of that which was soon to be due


    38. This payment, therefore, was altogether fictitious


    39. They could still have made nothing by the interest of the paper, which, being over and above what the circulation of the country could absorb and employ, returned upon them in order to be exchanged for gold and silver, as fast as they issued it ; and for the payment of which they were themselves continually obliged to borrow money


    40. } During the great re-coinage of the silver, which was going on at this time, the bank had thought proper to discontinue the payment of its notes, which necessarily occasioned their discredit

    41. To restrain private people, it may be said, from receiving in payment the promissory notes of a banker for any sum, whether great or small, when they themselves are willing to receive them; or, to restrain a banker from issuing such notes, when all his neighbours are willing to accept of them, is a manifest violation of that natural liberty, which it is the proper business of law not to infringe, but to support


    42. It would be otherwise, indeed, with a paper money, consisting in promissory notes, of which the immediate payment depended, in any respect, either upon the good will of those who issued them, or upon a condition which the holder of the notes might not always have it in his power to fulfil, or of which the payment was not exigible till after a certain number of years, and which, in the mean time, bore no interest


    43. Such a paper money would, no doubt, fall more or less below the value of gold and silver, according as the difficulty or uncertainty of obtaining immediate payment was supposed to be greater or less, or according to the greater or less distance of time at which payment was exigible


    44. Some years ago the different banking companies of Scotland were in the practice of inserting into their bank notes, what they called an optional clause; by which they promised payment to the bearer, either as soon as the note should be presented, or, in the option of the directors, six months after such presentment, together with the legal interest for the said six months


    45. The promissory notes of those banking companies constituted, at that time, the far greater part of the currency of Scotland, which this uncertainty of payment necessarily degraded below value of gold and silver money


    46. In the paper currencies of Yorkshire, the payment of so small a sum as 6d


    47. The paper currencies of North America consisted, not in bank notes payable to the bearer on demand, but in a government paper, of which the payment was not exigible till several years after it was issued ; and though the colony governments paid no interest to the holders of this paper, they declared it to be, and in fact rendered it, a legal tender of payment for the full value for which it was issued


    48. , To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free


    49. Decide on the terms of payment


    50. No law, therefore, could be more equitable than the act of parliament, so unjustly complained of in the colonies, which declared, that no paper currency to be emitted there in time coming, should be a legal tender of payment














































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    Synonyms for "payment"

    defrayal defrayment payment requital amount debt mortgage adjustment acquittal reimbursement award refund compensation restitution recompense

    "payment" definitions

    a sum of money paid or a claim discharged


    the act of paying money


    an act of requiting; returning in kind