Used in a Sentence

payment

How to use payment in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for payment.

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He'd taken the guy's phone as payment, but the phone was pin-locked and he couldn't get in.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of payment gathered in one view.

noun

a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

noun

the act of paying money

noun

an act of requiting; returning in kind

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for payment.

noun

a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

noun

an act of requiting; returning in kind

Example sentences

1

He'd taken the guy's phone as payment, but the phone was pin-locked and he couldn't get in.

2

One nice thing about it is that if your income is low enough, your payment can end up being zero.

3

They sold them off and turned the equity into a down payment on a new house in new suburbs.

4

For projects over $2000, I would get 25% upfront, and then set milestones with payments attached.

5

You are taxed on the value of that stock as it exists as of the date you receive it in payment for such services.

6

These work basically the way you might think they do, in that your payment is based on a percentage of your income.

7

Each year, every US citizen resident in Alaska receives a dividend payment from this fund.

8

The kicker on the income-based payment plan is that if you make payments for 25 years, the loans go away, regardless of the amount you've payed on them.

9

If there were an asterisk attached that said, "...but only if people agree in retrospect that you deserve the money," nobody would accept them as payment.

10

With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up.[1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment in the beginning.

11

One day a flood comes tearing through your house, or your hard drive fails, or you miss a credit card payment, and if you've wired your brain to only be happy in the environment you created, you are going to have a breakdown.

12

Within a short time, the executive management of our client used that write-up to meet face-to-face with their counterpart executives on the other side and the case quickly settled for a very modest money payment.

13

If each of those can be aggregated into some other kind of service, where Uber, Lyft, etc. are just providers of payment processing, and possibly some operations expertise, that middleman network will capture all of the value.

14

Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors, while five Internet domain names used by the companies to host poker games were seized, federal authorities added in a statement.

15

It also explains Paypal's active hostility to many other business models, including money services businesses, third-party payment aggregators, and travel agents.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use payment in a sentence?

He'd taken the guy's phone as payment, but the phone was pin-locked and he couldn't get in.

What does payment mean?

a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

What part of speech is payment?

payment is commonly used as noun.