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| Main Entry: | payment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fee; installment of fee |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, advance, alimony, amends, amount, award, bounty, cash, deposit, disbursement, discharge, down, fee, hire, outlay, part, pension, portion, premium, reckoning, recompense, redress, refund, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, retaliation, return, reward, salary, settlement, subsidy, sum, support, wage, amortization, annuity, defrayal, defrayment, indemnification, pay-off, paying, quittance, remittance |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
payment, defrayment; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement., acknowledgment, release; receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands; voucher., repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay(reward) [more]; money paid (expenditure) [more]., ready money (cash) [more]; stake, remittance, installment., payer, liquidator [more].
-verbs
pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge; redeem; pay in kind., pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend [more]; put down, lay down., discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts., disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute; make compensation [more].
-adjectives
paying paid; owing nothing, out of debt, all straight; unowed, never indebted.
-adverbs
to the tune of; on the nail, money down.
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| Antonyms: | nonpayment |
| Main Entry: | atonement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
| Synonyms: | amends, payment, penance, recompense, redemption, redress, reparation, restitution, satisfaction, expiation, indemnification, propitiation |
| Main Entry: | cash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money; assets |
| Synonyms: | bread*, buck*, cabbage*, chicken feed*, coin, coinage, currency, dough*, funds, investment, legal tender, lot, note, payment, pledge, principal, refund, remuneration, reserve, resources, riches, savings, scratch*, security, stock, supply, treasure, wherewithal, banknote, bullion, dinero, green stuff, mazumah, ready assets, skins, wampum* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, coverage, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, wage, counterclaim, damages, defrayal, indemnification, quittance, recoupment, remittal, remittance, take-home |
| Antonyms: | damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, due, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, chastening, chastisement, disciplining, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
| Synonyms: | claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts*, interest, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, satisfaction, title, vengeance, be in line for, entitlement, guerdon, merits, rights, what is coming to one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge for service or privilege |
| Synonyms: | account, ante*, bill, bite*, chunk*, commission, compensation, consideration, cost, cut*, emolument, end*, expense, gravy*, handle, hire, honorarium, house*, juice*, pay, payment, percentage, piece*, price, recompense, remuneration, reward, salary, share, slice*, stipend, take*, toll, wage, piece of the action, rake-off, take-in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | financing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for operating expenses |
| Synonyms: | expenditure, loan, outlay, payment, costs, funding, matching funds, outgo |
| Main Entry: | installment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part, section |
| Synonyms: | chapter, division, earnest, episode, payment, portion, repayment, token, partial payment |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | kickback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | cut, gift, graft, oil*, payment, payoff, payola, percentage, recompense, reward, share, money under the table |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | money |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | currency accepted as exchange for goods, services |
| Synonyms: | bankroll, bill, bread*, capital, cash, check, chips, coin, coinage, dough*, finances, fund, funds, gold, gravy*, greenback*, hard cash*, legal tender, loot*, medium of exchange, pay, payment, property, resources, riches, roll, salary, silver, treasure, wad*, wage, wealth, wherewithal*, almighty dollar, banknote, bucks, pesos, specie |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon*, bread*, commission, compensation, consideration, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, wage, wages, defrayment, emoluments, meed, recompensation, stipendium, take-home, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | payoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, climax |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, clincher*, consequence, culmination, day of reckoning*, finale, judgment, moment of truth*, outcome, pay, payment, punch line*, result, retribution, reward, settlement, upshot*, final reckoning |
| Antonyms: | introduction, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefits paid after retirement |
| Synonyms: | IRA*, allowance, gift, grant, payment, premium, reward, social security, subsidy, support, annuity, retirement account, subvention, superannuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ransom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail money paid for return of possession or person |
| Synonyms: | bribe, compensation, deliverance, payment, payoff, price, redemption, release, rescue, expiation, liberation money |
| Main Entry: | recompense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something returned, paid back |
| Synonyms: | amends, atonement, compensation, cue, emolument, gravy*, indemnity, pay, payment, recovery, redemption, redress, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, return, reward, salvo, satisfaction, tip, wages, bus fare, damages, expiation, indemnification, overcompensation, propitiation, quittance, recoupment, retrieval, retrievement, solatium, sweetener |
| Antonyms: | take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
| Synonyms: | aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, change, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, payment, recompense, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, balancing, conciliation, offsetting, quittance, rectification, reestablishment, reworking |
| Antonyms: | hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | refund |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | returned money |
| Synonyms: | allowance, compensation, consolation, discharge, discount, kickback, payment, rebate, reimbursement, remuneration, repayment, restitution, retribution, return, satisfaction, settlement, acquittance, give-back, give-up, money back |
| Notes: | a rebate is a partial repayment, whereas a refund is a repayment of the total purchase price |
| Main Entry: | reparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation, amends |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, apology, atonement, dues, emolument, indemnity, payment, penance, recompense, redemption, redress, remuneration, renewal, repair, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, satisfaction, settlement, damages, expiation, indemnification, making good, propitiation, quittance, squaring things |
| Antonyms: | extortion, penalty, theft |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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