NONPAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonpayment mean? 

• NONPAYMENT (noun)
  The noun NONPAYMENT has 3 senses:

1. act of failing to meet a financial obligation

2. loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

3. the deliberate act of failing to pay money

  Familiarity information: NONPAYMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONPAYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of failing to meet a financial obligation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

default; nonpayment; nonremittal

Hypernyms ("nonpayment" is a kind of...):

failure (an act that fails)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

default; nonpayment; nonremittal

Hypernyms ("nonpayment" is a kind of...):

financial loss (loss of money or decrease in financial value)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonpayment"):

delinquency (nonpayment of a debt when due)

Antonym:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

The deliberate act of failing to pay money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

evasion; nonpayment

Context example:

he was indicted for nonpayment

Hypernyms ("nonpayment" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonpayment"):

tax evasion (the deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report))

Antonym:

payment (the act of paying money)