payment system

collocation in English

meaningsofpaymentandsystem

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payment
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/us
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/
an amount of ...
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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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(Definition ofpaymentandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpayment system

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There are also suggestions to integrate the fee-for-servicepaymentsystemfor hospital doctors with the hospital budget (cf., infra).
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One could argue that no matter what thepaymentsystem, we acted more like rational profit makers, less like professionals.
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The most revolutionary proposed change is the integration of the fee-forservicepaymentsystemfor hospital doctors with the hospital budget.
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Finally, continual refinement of thepaymentsystemis not a sign of political weakness but of economic necessity.
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Extrapolating the cost experience in one country to another with a different health care andpaymentsystemis difficult.
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In 1997, as in 1983, when the prospectivepaymentsystemfor hospitals was adopted, the rhetoric was all about markets and competition.
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Updating and recalibrating prices is a necessity of anypaymentsystem.
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Coding creep ('gaming') of thepaymentsystemby upcoding was also present, but relatively modest compared to changes in the site of service.
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Second, the price of drugs set by thepaymentsystemis revised primarily according to the results of a market-price survey.
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The dominantpaymentsystemis fee-for-ser vice for the private sector and administered prices and salaries for public hospitals and social insurance funds.
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However, the wagepaymentsystemdid not want for rules.
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Nevertheless, the wagepaymentsystemfor domestic servants seems incompatible with their tenure of employment.
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A proportionalpaymentsystemis one in which all individuals pay the same proportion (say 8 per cent) of their income for their health care.
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The main features of this newpaymentsystemwere twofold.
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May an improved costly trading technology prove superior to strict reliance on a monetarypaymentsystem?
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Thepaymentsystemis ver y complex.
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I have always taken the view that the deficiencypaymentsystemoperated in a free market would inevitably produce that situation.
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I am not going to say that the frontagepaymentsystemis altogether satisfactory, but the rateable value system would be most unsatisfactory.
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That is quite an impracticable alternative to the phasing out of the deficiencypaymentsystemas we know it today.
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We know that where the directpaymentsystemhas been implemented, it has worked.
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