lump sumnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌlʌmp ˈsʌm/us/ˌlʌmp ˈsʌm/an amount of money that is paid in one large amount on one occasion:
Her divorce settlement included a lump sum of $2 million.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Amounts of money
- ante
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- buck
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- daily bread
- float
- have/get your snout in the trough idiom
- living wage
- money supply
- nut
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- sub
- trough
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