short payment
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short payments
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He agrees that they have little choice at the start of their businesses except to accept short payment terms from suppliers and long ones from customers.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2021
He was given two choices - to extend the term of the mortgage, or take a short "payment holiday."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2018
The Collector ordered his head clerk to produce the ledger account of payments on account of the Shibprakásh estates, and, sure enough, they showed a short payment of the amount stated.
From Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea
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