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counter-payment

counter-payment is the alternative form of counterpayment.

Meaning of counterpayment

Noun

counterpayment (plural counterpayments)

  1. A payment made to recompense, in part or in full, someone who has made a payment.
    • In 1979, the concept of the counterpayment of benefits was modified to apply only to the airlines of countries which the Ecuadorian Airline did not serve.1989, Ramon De Murias, The Economic Regulation of International Air Transport, page 236

Forms of counter-payment

pluralcounter-payments

Questions about counter-payment

What is counter-payment the alternative form of?
Counter-payment is the alternative form of counterpayment.

Words near counter-payment in the dictionary

  1. counter-parties
  2. counter-party
  3. counter-passant
  4. counter-password
  5. counter-passwords
  6. counter-payment
  7. counter-payments
  8. counter-potent
  9. counter-potenty
  10. counter-productive
  11. counter-proposal

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