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SUPPORT PAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does support payment mean? 

SUPPORT PAYMENT (noun)
  The noun SUPPORT PAYMENT has 1 sense:

1. a payment made by one person for the support of anotherplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SUPPORT PAYMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A payment made by one person for the support of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

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

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

palimony (support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends)

alimony; maintenance (court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated)

child support (court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated)


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