单词 | unpayment |
释义 | unpaymentn. Now rare. Non-payment; financial default. Also: a failure to pay, a default. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > [noun] non-payment1423 unpaymenta1443 non-paying?a1600 a1443 Chancery Petitions (P.R.O.) Ser. CP1 File 12 No. 198 (MED) Distressez han be lawefully taken for the seide vnpaiementez. 1480 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 36 Costes and lossys that shall happon or fall for un payment of the sayd som beyt be exchange or reexcheynge or hodyrwhysse. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 351 I know no cause quhairfoir bot that he discordit witht his persone ffor wnpayment of his teindis. 1845 Jurist 8 951/2 A condition of re-entry for unpayment of the rent or rents thereby respectively to be reserved. 1851 Illustr. London News 31 May 476/3 Unpayments..during the financial year 1850–51..amounted to £453,011 13s. 5d. 2011 Andover (Mass.) Townsman (Nexis) 16 June The other unregistered cars have started collecting fines because they violated town ordinance—fines that have stopped being issued due to unpayment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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