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stop payments

stop payments is the plural of stop payment.

Meaning of stop payment

Noun

stop payment (countable and uncountable, plural stop payments)

  1. An official request made by a bank account holder to their financial institution instructing them to cancel a check or automatic debit before it is processed.

Questions about stop payments

What is stop payments the plural of?
Stop payments is the plural of stop payment.

Words near stop payments in the dictionary

  1. stop order
  2. stop orders
  3. stop out
  4. stop over
  5. stop payment
  6. stop payments
  7. stop plank
  8. stop planks
  9. stop press
  10. stop set
  11. stop sets

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