Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

counter-payment

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables: coun-ter--pay-ment
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of counterpayment.

Example Sentences

"He has a legal claim over the calf, which is a counter-payment for the bull the other owner slaughtered."
"Similarly if a bank has paid £100,000 up front to a local authority under a void interest rate swap transaction can it possibly make sense to allow restitution to the bank where the local authority has made no counter-payment but to deny restitutions to the bank where the local authority has made one counter-payment of £10 so that the consideration for the payment has not totally failed?"
"The rule in many African societies is that if there is a divorce the marriage payment and the counter-payment must be returned."

Inflected Forms

counter-payments (plural)

Questions

What does counter-payment mean?: Alternative form of counterpayment.

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