Usually means: Payment overdue by specified date.
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  1. arrear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. arrear: Collins English Dictionary
  3. arrear: Wordnik
  4. arrear: Wiktionary
  5. arrear: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. arrear: Dictionary.com
  7. Arrear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Arrear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. arrear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Arrear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. arrear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. arrear: Free Dictionary
  13. Arrear: Dictionary/thesaurus
  14. arrear: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrear: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. arrear: Legal dictionary
  4. Arrear: Financial dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (arrear)

adverb:  (obsolete) Towards the rear, backwards.
adverb:  (obsolete) Behind time; overdue.
noun:  Work to be done, obligation.
noun:  Unpaid debt.
noun:  That which is in the rear or behind.

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