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

Its preferred-stock arrearage has grown from $21.25 then to $43.50 a share now.

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