arrears

IPA: ɝˈɪrz

Root Word: Arrears

(or arrearage) a legal term for the part of a debt that is overdue after missing one or more required payments.

Examples of "arrears" in Sentences

The Braves are buried, along with the Marlins, eight games in arrears with 32 to go.
Pathetic, think that maybe Ensign was in arrears on paying for his Cadillac health plan there?
Can an individual who is in arrears on child support payments have his/her bank account frozen?
If you are a skilled planner how do you let a modest mortgage get months in arrears while earning $118k a year?
Of the 1.8 million people with such loans, 400,000 are behind on their payments - with 100,000 in arrears by three months or more.
And when I was writing my story, I visited Kansas City, a pretty working-class crowd, and I talked to a lot of men who had been in arrears in child support.
A least one notice regarding the hearing will have been sent to the last known address of the individual in arrears, OR published in a newspaper from the area where the hearing will be held.
Peter Cargill claimed that the number of indebted countries in arrears regarding payments to the World Bank and/or that were seeking to renegotiate their multilateral debt had risen from three to eighteen between 1974 and 1978!