"short payment" meaning in English

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    ],
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      "payment",
      "payment#English"
    ],
    [
      "underpayment",
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    ],
    [
      "shortfall",
      "shortfall#English"
    ]
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      "expansion": "short + payment",
      "name": "compound"
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  "etymology_text": "From short + payment, patterned after financial terms such as underpayment and shortfall.",
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    {
      "form": "short payments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2023 December 15, Shaun Jex, “How to Handle Short Payments”, in Quadient:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A payment that is less than the full amount owed; an underpayment resulting from error, adjustment, or deduction."
      ],
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          "deduction",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance, accounting) A payment that is less than the full amount owed; an underpayment resulting from error, adjustment, or deduction."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "short-pay"
        },
        {
          "word": "short-paid"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "underpayment"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short payment"
}

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      "short",
      "short#English"
    ],
    [
      "payment",
      "payment#English"
    ],
    [
      "underpayment",
      "underpayment#English"
    ],
    [
      "shortfall",
      "shortfall#English"
    ]
  ],
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From short + payment, patterned after financial terms such as underpayment and shortfall.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "short payments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    },
    {
      "word": "short-paid"
    }
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          "ref": "2023 December 15, Shaun Jex, “How to Handle Short Payments”, in Quadient:",
          "text": "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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        }
      ],
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        "A payment that is less than the full amount owed; an underpayment resulting from error, adjustment, or deduction."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "accounting",
          "accounting#Noun"
        ],
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        "(finance, accounting) A payment that is less than the full amount owed; an underpayment resulting from error, adjustment, or deduction."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "underpayment"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
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        "business",
        "finance"
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  "word": "short payment"
}