arrear

Example Sentences

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"My arrear just stems from a time when I was court-ordered to pay child support and back child support on an NBA salary," he said in an interview with NBC News.

From Salon • May 30, 2024

Every feeling was offended; and the forbearance of her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable goodwill of Mr. Weston’s temper.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Chut, man, with his wage a year in arrear, and naught behind his wage, where is he to find another fifty men, let alone three or four hundred?

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

Finally, never allow your index to fall into arrear, and write the figures in your circumscribed spaces in red ink.

From Literary Byways by Andrews, William

In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah