—­ make salary separate —­
     #807.  Payment.—­ N. payment, defrayment[obs3]; discharge; acquittance,
quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning,
arrangement.
     acknowledgment, release; receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of
all demands; voucher.
     salary, compensation, remuneration (reward) 973.
     repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay &c.(reward) 973; money paid
&c. (expenditure) 809.
     ready money &c. (cash) 800; stake, remittance, installment.
     payer, liquidator &c. 801.
     pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead. 
     V. pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready
money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge;
redeem; pay in kind.
     pay one’s way, pay one’s shot, pay one’s footing; pay the piper, pay
sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up
[coll.], fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the
palm, grease the palm; expend &c. 809; put down, lay down.
     discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account
with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a
balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with;
quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in
full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate;
pay up, pay old debts.
     disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute[obs3];
make compensation &c.30.
     pay by credit card, put it on the plastic. 
     Adj. paying &c. paid &c. v.; owing nothing, out of debt, all straight;
unowed[obs3], never indebted. 
     Adv. to the tune of; on the nail, money down.

     #808.  Nonpayment —­ N. nonpayment; default, defalcation; protest,
repudiation; application of the sponge|!; whitewashing.
     insolvency, bankruptcy, failure; insufficiency &c. 640; run upon a
bank; overdrawn account.
     waste paper bonds; dishonored bills, protested bills; bogus check,
bogus cheque, rubber check.
     bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag,
defaulter, levanter|!. 
     V. not pay &c. 807; fail, break, stop payment; become insolvent,
become bankrupt; be gazetted.
     protest, dishonor, repudiate, nullify, refuse payment.
     pay under protest; button up one’s pockets, draw the purse strings;
apply the sponge; pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed; swindle &c. 791; run up bills, fly kites. 
     Adj. not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt &c. 806;
behindhand, in arrear[obs3], behind in payments, in arrears; beggared &c. (poor) 804; unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless.
     insolvent, bankrupt, in the gazette, gazetted.
     unpaid &c. (outstanding) 806; gratis &c. 815; unremunerated.