payments
PAY-muhnts/ˈpeɪmənts/
- 1Plural of payment.
The company missed two loan payments and faced a penalty.
Monthly subscription payments are charged automatically to your card.
Note
A plural that belongs to only half of the noun. When payment means a sum handed over, or the transaction that carries it, it counts freely: two missed payments, monthly payments. When it means the act of paying itself, as in prompt payment or payment on delivery, it is a mass noun and takes no plural. If a sentence needs payments, it is talking about sums and transactions, not the act.
payments is a form of payment
payment, noun: A sum of money paid, for goods or services or toward a debt, or the transaction that conveys it. Full entry
- Forms
- paymentpayments plural
- Spelling
- payment → payments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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