PAYMENT
ADJECTIVES
1972 ► UP FRONT of payments: in advance → sl., orig. US
NOUNS
1315 ► WARING payment of a price → obs.
1569 ► HANDSEL → HANSEL a first installment of payment; earnest money; the first money taken by a trader in the morning; the first money received in the day for the sale of goods; also, the first purchaser; anything given or taken as an omen, or pledge of what is to follow
1649 ► ADVANCEMENT the advancing or paying beforehand of money; payment in advance → obs.
1650 ► MONKEY’S MONEY payment in kind, esp. labour, goods, or fair words → colloq.
1665 ► IMBURSEMENT the act of supplying with money; payment
E19.. ► UNGUENTUM AUREUM an advance payment
1895 ► TOP DOLLAR the highest level of payment → colloq.
L19.. ► CHUMMAGE a payment from any newcomer → sl.
L19.. ► LITTLE EIGHT a regular per diem payment → Aust. sl.
1945 ► BABY BONUS the family allowance payment → Can. sl.
1960 ► BACKHANDER a secret payment → sl.
1980 ► MATE’S RATES preferential rates of payment offered to a friend → chiefly Aust. & NZ
VERBS
1477 ► RATE to fix, assign, settle, the amount of a payment, fine, etc. → obs.
1887 ► TAKE OUT to receive payment in kind → Eng. dial.
20C.. ► PUT ONE’S MOUTH IN ONE’S POCKET to be forced to make a heavy payment after losing a libel suit → W. Indies sl.
1918 ► SQUEEZE UNTIL THE PIPS SQUEAK to exact the maximum payment which a person can afford → colloq., chiefly British
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