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back payments

back payments is the plural of back payment.

Meaning of back payment

Noun

back payment (plural back payments)

  1. An overdue payment from a debtor to a creditor on money owed.
    • The employer paid a back payment to his employee on his wages from three months earlier.

Questions about back payments

What is back payments the plural of?
Back payments is the plural of back payment.

Words near back payments in the dictionary

  1. back passes
  2. back pat
  3. back pats
  4. back pay
  5. back payment
  6. back payments
  7. back pays
  8. back pedal brake
  9. back pedal brakes
  10. back pocket
  11. back pockets

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