arrears
Past-due amounts
Arrears refers to money owed that is overdue—payments that should have been made but weren't.
Bills, rent, and child support fall into arrears when they go unpaid: She was three months in arrears on her mortgage.
The word almost always appears in the phrase in arrears.
Separately, some payments are made in arrears by design—meaning after the service period rather than before: Employees are paid in arrears, receiving their check after the work is done.
Criminal or neglectful behavior
- defaultPreset standard option
- owingYet to be paid
- unpaidNot yet compensated
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
dues · indebtedness · obligation · repayment · creditors · liabilities · outstanding · overdue
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- lienClaim securing debt
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- litigationLegal dispute process
creditor · debtor · summons · enforcement · settlement · repossession
Collected mass over time
Financial record book
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- accrualsAmounts accumulated over time
invoicing · transactions · receivables · write-off · billing · fiscal · journal · adjustments
delinquency
Criminal or neglectful behavior
balance · dues · indebtedness · obligation · repayment · creditors · liabilities · outstanding · overdue · behind
judgment
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- lienClaim securing debt
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
litigation · creditor · debtor · summons · enforcement · settlement · repossession
accumulation
Collected mass over time
- pileupSequential vehicular collision
- mountingSteadily increasing in degree
- accruedGradually accumulated
catchup · installments · shortfall · carryover · cumulative
ledger
Financial record book
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
accruals · invoicing · transactions · receivables · write-off · billing · fiscal · journal · adjustments · audit
- Irish Landtenant farmer, eviction, fair rent, Land War, tenant rights
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- debtdebt, creditor, owe, debtor, lender
- debtscredit card debt, car loan, student loan, loans, bank loan
- money owedbills, debts, loans, IOUs, mortgages
- money troublesdebt relief, bad debt, bankruptcy filing, paycheck to paycheck, struggling
arrearscurrent
Directed flow of charge
up to date · paid up · in good standing · prepaid · on time
arrearscredit
Recognition or payment deferral
surplus · overpayment · excess · in the black · advance
- in arrearsOwing overdue money
- rent arrearsAccumulated unpaid housing fees
- tax arrearsOverdue payments to government