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Nonpayment   /nɑnpˈeɪmənt/   Listen
Nonpayment

noun
1.
Act of failing to meet a financial obligation.  Synonyms: default, nonremittal.
2.
Loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid.  Synonyms: default, nonremittal.
3.
The deliberate act of failing to pay money.  Synonym: evasion.  "He was indicted for nonpayment"






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"Nonpayment" Quotes from Famous Books



... draft was presented by the holder with the credentials required by the treaty to authorize him to receive the money, the Government of France allowed it to be protested. In addition to the injury in the nonpayment of the money by France, conformably to her engagement, the United States were exposed to a heavy claim on the part of the bank under pretense of damages, in satisfaction of which that institution seized upon and still retains an equal amount of ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... past decade, attributable largely to declining annual rainfall, has kept per capita income at low levels. A large foreign debt and huge arrearages continue to cause difficulties. In 1990 the International Monetary Fund took the unusual step of declaring Sudan noncooperative because of its nonpayment of arrearages to the Fund. After Sudan backtracked on promised reforms in 1992-93, the IMF threatened to expel Sudan from the Fund. To avoid expulsion, Khartoum agreed to make payments on its arrears to the Fund, liberalize exchange rates, and reduce subsidies, measures it has partially implemented. ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



Words linked to "Nonpayment" :   nonremittal, payment, financial loss, commercialism, evasion, failure, tax evasion, default, mercantilism, delinquency, commerce



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