time-payment

noun

Payment that is based on the total amount of time worked.

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Meanings

nountime-payment (plural time-payments)

plural time-payments

  1. datedPayment that is based on the total amount of time worked.
  2. datedPayment that is made in installments.

    Meals he procured at the sixpenny restaurant on the time-payment system, the consumption of meals being invariably in advance of the ratio paid for the allegedly humorous drawings.

    1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 153
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