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arrearage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrearage \Ar*rear"age\, n. [F. arr['e]rage, fr. arri[`e]re, OF. arere. See Arrear.] That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears.
The old arrearages . . . being defrayed.
--Howell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"unpaid debt," early 14c., from Old French arierage "detriment, prejudice (in a legal sense)" (Modern French arrérage), from arere "behind;" see arrears.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A condition of being in arrears. 2 An item that is in arrears, as periodic payments on a debt or for taxes.
Usage examples of "arrearage".
There could no man bring him in arrearage There was no bailiff, herd, nor other hine* *servant That he ne knew his *sleight and his covine* *tricks and cheating* They were adrad* of him, as of the death *in dread His wonning* was full fair upon an heath *abode With greene trees y-shadow'd was his place.
Having only just returned to Paris from his travels in the South, Jefferson explained, he had “the arrearages of three or four months all crowded on me at once.
Having only just returned to Paris from his travels in the South, Jefferson explained, he had "the arrearages of three or four months all crowded on me at once.
The Treasury had lately made up the arrearages and now paid its dividends promptly.