IMMEDIATE PAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immediate payment mean? 

• IMMEDIATE PAYMENT (noun)
  The noun IMMEDIATE PAYMENT has 1 sense:

1. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

  Familiarity information: IMMEDIATE PAYMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEDIATE PAYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cash; immediate payment

Hypernyms ("immediate payment" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

 Context examples 

"Suppose," he cried with feeble violence, "that all the debts in the world were called up simultaneously, and immediate payment insisted upon,—what under our present conditions would happen then?"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)