arrears


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Synonyms for arrears

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for arrears

something, such as money, owed by one person to another

a condition of owing something to another

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Words related to arrears

the state of being behind in payments

an unpaid overdue debt

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As Benjamin concluded, he thrust out the wooden register of his arrears to the “ Bold Dragoon” with one hand, while he offered his bag of dollars with the other.
The rest were occupied in other parts of the ship: Ridley at his Greek--he had never found quarters more to his liking; Willoughby at his documents, for he used a voyage to work of arrears of business; and Rachel--Helen, between her sentences of philosophy, wondered sometimes what Rachel did do with herself?
'He would have come into his partnership derived from his father, and into its arrears to his credit (if any), on attaining his majority, just as now.'
There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball.
My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done.
My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off.
Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs.
According to NTA the Authority scrapped the license after Hello Nepal failed to pay its arrears to the NTA.
Workers in state-owned sugar companies are owed about Sh2.8 billion in salary arrears.
Staff unions of Oyo State-owned tertiary institutions have urged the Governor Seyi Makinde led government to upwardly review the special grant of N200 million monthly set aside by the state government to offset its accumulated arrears of 2016 and 2017 salaries.
ISLAMABAD -- Sub-Committee of Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication Tuesday directed the information technology ministry, PTCL and PTET to immediately release pension and arrears of the retired employees.
ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan TelecommAunAiAcation Employees Trust (PTET) on Tuesday sought a week to respond if it can clear arrears of pensioners of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company.
UNIVERSAL Credit has sparked a rent arrears crisis in Birmingham as tenants find themselves without enough cash to cover housing costs.
ISLAMABAD:The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the federal and provincial governments to ensure payment of pension arrears of retired judges of high courts within three years.A three-member bench of apex court heard the case seeking payment of pension's amount to the retired judges of high courts.