What's the difference between arrear and overdue?

Arrear


Definition:

  • (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.
  • (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (3) Instead, 28% have simply fallen into arrears for the first time.
  • (4) The two payments meant arrears were paid off more quickly than planned, but the FCA said households may have ended up unable to repay more expensive debts as a result of the mistake.
  • (5) Because of a shortage of smaller properties, many families have found it impossible to downsize and have been forced to make up the difference in rent, pushing many into arrears and debt.
  • (6) Rental arrears are up among social tenants as a result of the bedroom tax and other benefit cuts, with 28% of them going into the red for the first time .
  • (7) Any property market crash would also have an impact on the company's arrears position.
  • (8) Those who should never have been given loans and have fallen more than 30 days behind with repayments will have their debts wiped entirely, while a further 45,000 who are up to 30 days in arrears will have their interest and charges waived.
  • (9) Eviction orders issued by a local authority generally involve individuals who are several thousands of pounds in arrears, or people who have consistently flouted reasonable repayment orders or avoided communication with the council.
  • (10) "I'm supposed to be paying £11.41 a week for this one bedroom, and they've put it up to £15.01 a week so that I can clear my arrears.
  • (11) We know they’ve cut stipends to foreign fighters and many foreign fighters are in arrears on pay.” Hammond also delivered his strongest critique yet of Russia’s air campaign in Syria , accusing Moscow of deliberately carrying out strikes on schools and hospitals.
  • (12) The total number of mortgages in arrears stood at 395,000 by the end of September, a fall of 7,000 (1.8%) on the second quarter – the first time the number has dropped in more than two years.
  • (13) Payet further reduced the arrears after collecting a back pass by Moussa Sissoko one minute into stoppage time.
  • (14) Some 72 of its tenants who owe rent had never been in arrears before.
  • (15) Staff will be paid their arrears of wages and salaries, and will continue to be paid for their work during the administration.” The administration only involves Brantano (UK) Limited, the UK arm of the brand.
  • (16) In its latest analysis of the Irish property market at the start of 2014, the ratings agency Fitch said one in five houses where mortgages had been in arrears for three months or more was likely to be repossessed.
  • (17) Staff here dread the welfare reform bill, waiting for debts, arrears, evictions and pitiful hardship to wash up on their doorstep.
  • (18) There is a shortage of one bedroom flats in many parts of the region, with sharp competition between individuals trying to move on from supported housing, and those faced with having to downsize to avoid the bedroom tax or risk falling into arrears.
  • (19) Now back at work, the resident’s arrears have been reduced by almost £900.
  • (20) Step four: Deal with your landlord If you have fallen behind with your rent, speak to your landlord about paying off the arrears.

Overdue


Definition:

  • (a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After Cameron wasted an overlap opportunity with a feeble cross into Elliot’s arms, Mark Hughes made an overdue substitution and sent on Peter Crouch.
  • (2) The economist has managed to persuade fellow EU leaders to release a long-overdue €8bn (£6.8bn) tranche of aid – a lifeline without which the country would have gone bankrupt – but still faces the huge challenges of negotiating a new bailout agreement with international lenders, passing the budget with a majority vote and concluding a debt reduction deal, outlined in the latest €130bn rescue programme for the nation, in the coming weeks.
  • (3) But international analysts have called the recovery a dead cat bounce – and the leadership’s reputation with its own people for sound management, along with the promise for international investors that the government was on track for overdue economic reforms, has suffered a serious blow.
  • (4) Ahead of Friday's second reading of his bill, which calls for tougher rules on advertising and caps on loan sizes and charges, Blomfield said tough regulation of the sector was long overdue.
  • (5) On these counts it scored and scored again, and, moreover, it seems likely to lead to long overdue change and protection for people who cannot defend themselves.
  • (6) The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has called the trials a long-overdue effort to obtain justice against war criminals four decades after Bangladesh split from Pakistan.
  • (7) A circadian reappraisal of drug effects in general is overdue.
  • (8) In a recent report the Macroeconomic Policy Institute said the refugees would boost the German economy and “act almost like a stimulus programme”, by forcing long overdue investments in Germany’s weakened infrastructure.
  • (9) This is long overdue and I had urged this step in my recent book on Rome,” Fischer told AAP from Oslo.
  • (10) His rent of $380 for the year is overdue and, although part-way through his training as a lab technician, Douda doesn’t have a job.
  • (11) Huw Evans, deputy director general at the ABI, said: "The review of the Riot Damages Act is overdue, but government proposals to drastically cut back compensation are at odds with its intention to retain the principle that the state is responsible for the costs of riot damage, that has proved its worth for taxpayers for over 100 years.
  • (12) Like Barak, the Palestinian leader felt that permanent status negotiations were long overdue; unlike Barak, he did not think that this justified doing away with the interim obligations.
  • (13) This development is long overdue,” Delano Seiveright said.
  • (14) Critical evaluation of serum bactericidal titres is long overdue.
  • (15) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
  • (16) A negotiated settlement is long overdue, but it will only happen if strong international pressure, including from the US, is exerted on the Saudis.
  • (17) Since November 2013, Brockmeyer has paid off another three overdue tax bills totalling $64,599.
  • (18) A new cascading and embracing principle of devolution and nationalism is again surely well overdue.
  • (19) The market drop is overdue.” In a fresh sign that the Chinese economy has weakened, business magazine Caixin reported on Tuesday that China’s national rail freight volumes declined by a tenth in 2015, their biggest ever annual decline.
  • (20) A treaty to bring the arms trade under control is long overdue, but it must be a treaty with teeth.

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