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(Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
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(economics) The restriction that a budget must be spent by the end of a financial year and cannot be carried over
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A sum of money paid to someone to cover the expense of attending a meeting etc. away from home
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Alternative form of back pay. [A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.]
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(of an offence) For which bail is permitted.
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(historical) A monetary allowance given to servants so that they can buy food for themselves.
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(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
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(dialect) Pronunciation spelling of borrow. [To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.]
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A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
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(ditransitive, Kiribati) to request that an owner borrows or gives something of theirs one is in need, under the Bubuti system, which makes the request unrefusable.
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Obsolete spelling of CC BY [Creative Commons Attribution license.]
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(obsolete) The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose.
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Additional remuneration provided to a member of a military service when he or she is assigned to combat operations.
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(Scotland, law) A gratuitous loan.
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(chiefly law) A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
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(idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.
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(management, accounting) An expense one has avoided incurring.
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A fee paid purportedly to cover administrative costs, at the start of each new court filing.
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An amount of money added to a restaurant bill in lieu of tips, and to pay for uncharged items such as bread and water.
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Extra money paid to workers as compensation for dangerous work.
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Extra payment given to anybody, civilian or soldier, who is employed in a situation where the working conditions or locale are considered to be hazardous.
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(US politics) Funds used to pay for an election campaign that are not disclosed to voters prior to voting, whether spent on behalf of a candidate running in an election, or to influence voting on a ballot.
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To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
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(informal) To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve.
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(psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
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The date by which a book (or other item) borrowed from a library must be returned.
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A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.
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Wages, money earned, income.
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A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
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Obsolete form of interest. [(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.]
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(historical) A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
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(UK) A former type of social security payment made to families with children; now replaced by child benefit.
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(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
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Alternative form of fee-fees [(slang, derogatory) Feelings.]
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The actual set of fees to be charged.
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Alternative form of fee splitting [(business) The practice, usually of questionable ethicality, by some professionals, such as medical doctors and lawyers, of sending a client to a second practitioner for an additional consultation in order to obtain another payment from the client or from his or her insurer, and in return for which the original practitioner receives a portion of the payment made to the second practitioner (a "commission" or "piece of the action").]
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(US, colloquial, dated) Pay TV.
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(obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
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A small extra payment to officers on active service.
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(advertising) An agency's fee of 15% commission on the gross charge for advertising space and time, minus 2% of the net amount as a discount for prompt payment.
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Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.
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A reward for returning a lost item.
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(UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
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(obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
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(law) A fee paid to secure a priority of claim on a counsel's services.
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A record of a purchase, similar to a receipt but lacking indication of price.
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A voucher for a specified amount purchased from a retailer (or other business) and given to someone as a present. The voucher can be exchanged for goods or services by the recipient at the retailer or business concerned.
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Alternative form of grant-in-kind [A grant of goods or services provided free of charge or the transfer of ownership of a nonfinancial asset in which the donor does not receive anything of commensurate value in return.]
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A grant of goods or services provided free of charge or the transfer of ownership of a nonfinancial asset in which the donor does not receive anything of commensurate value in return.
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A gift, something obtained without effort.
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(UK, obsolete, intransitive) To be officially declared bankrupt in the newspaper.
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(slang, finance, Britain) Hypothecation.
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(law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.
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To advance funds on loan.
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(obsolete) Security; bail.
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(archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
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The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
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A large sum of money one has saved over a considerable number of years.
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(economics) The minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.
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(usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
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A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.
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(law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
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An amount paid in addition to a basic salary, dependent on the exact job and its location.
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(historical, law) Of or characterized by an avoidance of laws against usury by a pair of sales between a lender and a borrower (or their agents), where the first purchase is made on credit and an immediate repurchase is made in cash, the difference in prices amounting to the interest of the loan.
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(derogatory) Synonym of debt collection
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(idiomatic, by extension) Recompense or just deserts, especially as resulting from dealing with a perceived injury or injustice.
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Alternative form of money-making [Profitable.]
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(finance) profit; surplus
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(finance) The amount by which the market value of a property falls below the amount of the mortgage secured upon it.
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A nominal fee, fine or penalty charged to deter an action (rather than to compensate for the costs of that action).
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(law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose.
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(historical) Cash or other aid given to the poor without their having to stay in the poorhouse.
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(now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
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Pertaining to or requiring payment.
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one to whom money is paid.
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One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
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(law, healthcare, medical insurance) One who makes a payment.
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(Canada, US, law) A court order forbidding one party to bother another.
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An economic benefit gained from a reduction in defence spending, especially a fund of public money that is thereby made available for other purposes.
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(obsolete) A wage or fee.
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(obsolete, Scotland) A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized
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Is a principle referring to the idea that firms responsible for causing pollution should be charged the full external costs for the damage that it inflicts on society.
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To borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.
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(obsolete, transitive) To give as a loan; to lend.
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(UK, law, obsolete) A payment of money; a toll or duty.
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The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.
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Alternative form of profit taking [The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.]
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A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
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(economics) The amount of goods and services that can be bought by consumers; available income; spending power.
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Someone who pays for utility service
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a sum of money required to enrol on an official register generally used to defray the cost of administration but may include damage deposits or taxes.
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(finance) A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift high-risk investments to low-risk investments.
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Abbreviation of salary sacrifice. [The process where some of an employee's pay is retained by the employer to cover benefits such as parking, childcare, or meals.]
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An amount of money paid in advance as security against the payor's non-performance of a contractual obligation.
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A sum of money paid regularly to support the dependents of a member of the military while he or she is serving away from home.
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(finance) An initial fee that is charged by an organization to set up an account (or similar financial instrument).
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(intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest.
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Some other form of fixed (and generally small) payment occurring at regular intervals, such as an allowance, a pension, or (obsolete) a tax. [from 16th c.]
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(of a job or employment) Paid (sometimes at a low level, but not voluntary).
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(historical) Money deducted from the wages of such absentees.
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A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
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A surcharge, additional cost, especially for food in a restaurant.
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Extortion; protection money.
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(business, finance) Money which is paid as a tax or a tribute.
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Alternative form of wadset [(obsolete, Scotland) To mortgage land.]
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The illegal withholding of wages or denial of benefits that are rightfully owed to an employee.
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(economics) The theory that there is at any given time in a country a determinate amount of capital available for the payment of labour, therefore the average wage depends on the proportion of this fund to the number of persons who have to share in it.
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(chiefly US) Such payment.
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