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arrears

[ uh-reerz ]

plural noun

  1. the state of being behind or late, especially in the fulfillment of a duty, promise, obligation, or the like:

    Many homeowners have fallen into arrears.

  2. Sometimes arrear. something overdue in payment; a debt that remains unpaid:

    Those countries that have paid their arrears may be granted additional loans.



arrears

/ əˈrɪəz /

noun

  1. Also calledarrearageəˈrɪərɪdʒ sometimes singular something outstanding or owed
  2. in arrears or in arrear
    late in paying a debt or meeting an obligation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • ar·rear·age noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of arrears1

1300–50; noun use of arrear (adv., now obsolete), Middle English arere behind < Middle French Latin ad retrō. See ad-, retro-
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Word History and Origins

Origin of arrears1

C18: from obsolete arrear (adv) behindhand, from Old French arere, from Medieval Latin adretrō, from Latin ad to + retrō backwards
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. in arrears, behind or late, especially in payment: Also Chiefly Law, in arrear.

    She was three months in arrears on her mortgage and credit card payments.

More idioms and phrases containing arrears

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Example Sentences

There are some men295 who with an annual revenue of two millions are yearly still five hundred thousand livres in arrears.

However I have had the arrears of rent paid into Fleet street: which leaves a very moderate balance of interest against me.

Three thousand cows, worth as many marks, were offered in discharge of all arrears.

The Kavanaghs were tolerably quiet, ‘and though much in arrears of rent, yet pay it they will and shall.’

At the time of the grant it was intended that the advances should be repaid as soon as the tenants should pay up their arrears.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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