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Behind with payments
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in arrears
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Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills" [syn: behind , behindhand ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrear \Ar*rear"\, n. That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. --Locke. ...
Usage examples of in arrears.
The coffers were empty, government salaries were in arrears, and fundamental prior commitments to the army and officer corps could not be met.
She pulled the card and said that Miss Wennersehn, age fifty-one, had been in number sixty for four years and had never been in arrears.
He ignored all matters that were pending or current and concentrated on completing those which had already been in progress for some time or were in arrears.
If that is so, then we may find that the men returning from Venus will be perceiving on a continuum slightly in arrears of Earth time.
He advanced but a short distance when the troops mutinied in consequence of their pay being in arrears, and he was detained four weeks until the cities of Holland guaranteed their payment for three months.
By the horn of twenty of both of the two Saint Collopys, blackmail him I will in arrears or my name's not penitent Ferdinand!
Basically, I bid on the contents of self-storage lockers when the monthly payment's in arrears.
He was in arrears on the payments, of course, because all peasants were.