(n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
(n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.
(n.) Punishment; chastisement.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(4) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(5) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(6) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
(7) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(8) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(9) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(10) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(11) Most (86 percent) had educational debt (mean = $20,500), and more than half of those with debt were making loan payments.
(12) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(13) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
(14) The payments were for services ranging from "project management" to "HR consultancy", according to the academy chain's company accounts.
(15) The four most common types of insurance that protect your income are income protection insurance, critical illness cover, life insurance, and payment protection insurance.
(16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(17) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(18) The payments are now more likely to made in shares issued monthly.
(19) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(20) Without action today, the winter fuel payment would have decreased in value this coming winter.
Stipend
Definition:
(n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
(v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
(2) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
(3) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
(4) 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.
(5) The purpose of this study was to examine trends in providing specific benefits, namely, stipend, housing, meals, and uniform laundry, to students in full-time clinical education at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1977.
(6) Ecomic pressures may force the physician on an Australian stipend to consider working outside his fellowhip or residency.
(7) At the time it pointed out that the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who has questioned Barclays executives appearing before the banking standards commission, receives only three-and-a-half times the average clergy stipend of £21,900.
(8) Some of these organizations provide a stipend for the relief worker.
(9) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.
(10) You might be able to share your access to an academic journal or pay a small stipend for someone’s internet hosting as a deposit for a future holiday.
(11) The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends.
(12) Fellowship stipend sources are much more diverse; federal training grants, professional fees, foundations, medical school funds, and research grants contribute significantly.
(13) While the Russian government has ordered deep cuts in its space and hi-tech programmes , Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation had just raised its annual budget to $8.6m to be allocated to research stipends, publishing, and outreach.
(14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
(15) This study demonstrates the significant benefits to both foster parents and the children in their care of providing enhanced services and stipends to foster parents.
(16) The judges said it was not merely an anomaly that Berlusconi was paying monthly stipends to witnesses testifying in a trial in which he was indirectly implicated.
(17) They have developed working business arrangements – the pirates pay a stipend to be left in peace.
(18) Coates joins 23 other MacArthur fellows who will receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years in quarterly installments.
(19) The original purpose of this survey was to obtain sufficient salary information on residency programs to assist us in evaluating our residents' annual stipend.
(20) Expect wheelchairs in Downing Street as the coalition does away with the long-established principle that people who have contributed their own national insurance in the past, and then become sick and disabled, should expect a modest stipend from the state in recognition of this.