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LUMP SUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lump sum mean?
• LUMP SUM (noun)
The noun LUMP SUM has 1 sense:
1. a complete payment consisting of a single sum of money
Familiarity information: LUMP SUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A complete payment consisting of a single sum of money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("lump sum" is a kind of...):
payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)
Context examples
Why, thirty thousand, lump sum, wouldn't buy for him right now what ten cents he was layin' up would have bought him, when he was a kid, in the way of candy an' peanuts or a seat in nigger heaven.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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