payment
/ˈpeɪmənt/ noun B2- The act of paying. · Payment will be made at the end of the month.
- An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
- Something of value given in return for an act; payback; recompense; reward.
Plural payments
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Danglars waited a moment, expecting the postilion to come and demand payment with the termination of his stage.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
And when he had got all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment.
Well, I was a million in advance with him, and now my fine Jacopo Manfredi suspends payment!”
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