in arrears
owing money that should have been paid already:
My account is badly in arrears.
They are in arrears on/with their mortgage payments.
If someone is paid in arrears, they are paid at the end of the period of time during which the money was earned:
I'm paid a week in arrears.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Borrowing & lending
- be in the hole idiom
- borrow
- bounce
- call it quits idiom
- call sth in
- credit
- credit risk
- debenture
- fire sale
- gearing
- leveraged buyout
- liability
- liquidate
- national debt
- overpay
- pay
- put sth up
- slate
- term
- tick
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