Definition of payment
Pronunciation
Noun
payment (countable and uncountable; plural payments)
- (uncountable) The act of paying.
- (countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
Derived terms
Terms derived from "payment"
- down payment
- grease payment
- lubrication payment
- payment in kind
Further reading
A payment is the transfer of wealth from one party (such as a person or company) to another. A payment is usually made in exchange for the provision of goods, services or both, or to fulfill a legal obligation.
The simplest and oldest form of payment is barter, the exchange of one good or service for another. In the modern world, common means of payment by an individual include money, check, debit, credit, or bank transfer, and in trade such payments are frequently preceded by an invoice or result in a receipt. However, there are no arbitrary limits on the form a payment can take and thus in complex transactions between businesses, payments may take the form of stock or other more complicated arrangements.
In law, the payer is the party making a payment while the payee is the party receiving the payment.
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Translation of payment in Malay
Noun
a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services
- pembayaran
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