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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-payment
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dissatisfaction, exacerbated by the non-payment of the usual bonuses, led to a mass exodus and mutiny.
▪ High unemployment, non-payment of state wages and pensions and official cronyism and corruption will all be election issues.
▪ Inside was a summons for non-payment of a parking ticket.
▪ That was welcomed by the organisations that had campaigned for non-payment.
▪ The company last year cut off thousands of domains for non-payment.
▪ The hon. Gentleman has made much of the power of imprisonment for non-payment.
▪ The threat of imprisonment for non-payment of local taxes is not unique to the community charge.
▪ When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid.

Usage examples of "non-payment".

This eventually proved to be an accumulation of annual payments from thousands of poor homesteaders whose remittances had never been recorded, and who, in many a case, would surely be evicted from their lands on score of non-payment of dues.

I may have been working for free, but the payment or non-payment of fees did not affect the attorney-client privilege.

The house meanwhile was recaptured by the Busati government for non-payment of the four-dollar annual real estate tax—.