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short payment

noun

Etymology

From short + payment, patterned after financial terms such as underpayment and shortfall.

  1. derived from paiement
  2. compounded as short payment — “short + payment”

Definitions

  1. A payment that is less than the full amount owed

    A payment that is less than the full amount owed; an underpayment resulting from error, adjustment, or deduction.

    • At times, a short payment may simply be the result of human error. This is particularly true for customers who manually process their accounts payable. A simple keystroke mistake or typo could result in the payment amount being wrong.

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