back payment

Example Sentences

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China has provided emergency loans and pushed back payment deadlines.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2023

The tycoon, who abstained from voting, wanted to give John Ashley the cash as a back payment.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2017

“I have no idea who he is,” Mr. Trump said in a statement emailed by an aide, “but if I held back payment, it was probably because he did a lousy job.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2016

But the supposed evidence of your experimental days is about as likely to show up as is the back payment for child support—that is, not likely at all.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2015

And industry received back payment from science with compound interest.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John