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payment
What does payment mean?
payment (noun): a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use payment in a sentence?
- Payment went through successfully. (Tatoeba sentence #13261610 by glossboss, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce payment?
/ˈpeɪmənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does payment come from?
From Old French paiement.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it
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