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発音

• IPA: /ˈpeɪmənt/, enPR: pāʹmənt
• 韻: -eɪmənt
• ハイフネーション: pay‧ment

名詞

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

1. (uncountable) The act of paying.
2. (countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.

   Synonym: consideration

   Antonyms: non-payment, nonpayment

   Hypernym: transaction

   Coordinate terms: credit, debit, withholding, garnishment, billing

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

   • 2023 November 15, 'Industry Insider', “Outbreak of common sense”, in RAIL, number 996, page 68:

     In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines.

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