arrearage

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Even then, water companies must choose to participate in the arrearage programs; those who don’t exclude their customers from financial aid.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Last month, the Chase Lloyd House Board of Trustees, which oversees the mansion, approved a $24,000 grant from its endowment to help pay off rent arrearage for women living in Annapolis public housing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

By removing the arrearage barrier to fresh dividends, the directors hoped to divide future profits among all classes of stockholders.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, earned surplus, out of which dividend arrears would have to be paid, still amounted to only about a third of the arrearage.

From Time Magazine Archive

And thus dividing of my fatal hours, The payments of my love I read and cross; Subtracting, set my sweets unto my sours, My joys' arrearage leads me to my loss.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote