Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural An unpaid, overdue debt or an unfulfilled obligation.
- noun plural The state of being behind in fulfilling obligations.
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- noun An unpaid or overdue
obligation . Adebt . - noun Plural form of
arrear .
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- noun the state of being behind in payments
- noun an unpaid overdue debt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Can an individual who is in arrears on child support payments have his/her bank account frozen?
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Can an individual who is in arrears on child support payments have his/her bank account frozen?
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If you are a skilled planner how do you let a modest mortgage get months in arrears while earning $118k a year?
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A least one notice regarding the hearing will have been sent to the last known address of the individual in arrears, OR published in a newspaper from the area where the hearing will be held.
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And when I was writing my story, I visited Kansas City, a pretty working-class crowd, and I talked to a lot of men who had been in arrears in child support.
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Pathetic, think that maybe Ensign was in arrears on paying for his Cadillac health plan there?
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Of the 1.8 million people with such loans, 400,000 are behind on their payments - with 100,000 in arrears by three months or more.
Hungarian sludge disaster darkens mood George Jahn 2010
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Of the 1.8 million people with such loans, 400,000 are behind on their payments - with 100,000 in arrears by three months or more.
Hungarian sludge disaster darkens mood George Jahn 2010
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Peter Cargill claimed that the number of indebted countries in arrears regarding payments to the World Bank and/or that were seeking to renegotiate their multilateral debt had risen from three to eighteen between 1974 and 1978!
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The Braves are buried, along with the Marlins, eight games in arrears with 32 to go.
Division race over, Braves turn sights toward wild card - sports 2009
super-logos commented on the word arrears
c-b, does this word chafe your ass?
August 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word arrears
No.
August 20, 2008
jwjarvis commented on the word arrears
there was a persistent need to grapple with appeals from individuals who had fallen in arrears.
September 14, 2010