REGULAR PAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regular payment mean? 

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

1. a payment made at regular times

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGULAR PAYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A payment made at regular times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

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

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

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage (something that remunerates)

stipend (a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose)

annuity; rente (income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments)

installment buying; installment plan; time plan (a system for paying for goods by installments)

disability check; disability payment (a monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to work)

pension (a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working)

 Context examples 

To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one's independence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)