delayed payment

collocation in English

meaningsofdelayedandpayment

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delayed
adjective[before noun]
uk
/dɪˈleɪd/us
/dɪˈleɪd/
happening at a later time than expected ...
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payment
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/us
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/
an amount of ...
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(Definition ofdelayedandpaymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdelayed payment

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In this case toodelayedpaymentwas common.
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However, contingent losses could be too high for a farmer to bear even adelayedpayment.
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While paupers may have expecteddelayedpayment, the confirmation of those expectations must still have had significant material consequences.
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Most resellers maintain extensive contacts with importers, with whom they frequently engage in credit arrangements, often in the form ofdelayedpayment.
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Delayedpaymentcontracts and a firm's propensity to hire older workers.
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Disguiseddelayedpayment, as the 'big store' is exploiting its capacity and power to force the small supplier to accept its conditions.
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Suspension is not an offence: it meansdelayedpayment.
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We are not at present planning legislation on the problem ofdelayedpaymentof bills to small firms.
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Two legal provisions limit that risk: firstly a bank guarantee, and secondly, a partiallydelayedpayment (that is, after two years of satisfactory operation).
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What he is suggesting is the connection between the thalidomide case anddelayedpaymentof claims by insurance companies?
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Why should we not change this system ofdelayedpaymentof tax on profits previously earned?
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Delayedpaymentof suppliers, especially small suppliers, has added unplanned and uncosted pressures.
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Even heredelayedpaymentof social security benefits can lead to families being put out on the streets because they cannot pay their bills.
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There is also, so far as all domestic water consumers are concerned, the problem of cut-offs for non- ordelayedpaymentof accounts.
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I should like to pursue that point, because in many instances ofdelayedpaymentthere has usually been a dispute about the quality of the goods or service provided.
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Small businesses often find themselves indirectly the bankers of the large multinationals by virtue of the policy ofdelayedpaymentof invoices and charges that they have incurred.
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Delayedpaymentis the illness of business.
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Those who operate on a cash basis or those who have not been paid by large companies that havedelayedpaymentwill face an exaggerated cash flow problem.
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