How do you use Arrears in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like indebtedness or liability, plus the exact meaning.
Arrears meaning
plural of arrear
Synonyms of Arrears
Using Arrears
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of arrear
- Useful related words include: indebtedness, liability, financial obligation, debt.
- In the example corpus, arrears often appears in combinations such as: in arrears, the arrears, arrears of.
Context around Arrears
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Arrears
- In this selection, "arrears" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, salary, term, bill, nwaeke, accumulation and put stand out and add context to how "arrears" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 110 million arrears to imf and accounts in arrears over one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "arrears" sits close to words such as anthropology, behaved and bracing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with arrears
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Do they have outstanding arrears with N.B. Power and N.B. Housing that need sorting first? (17 words)
According to officials, the complainants who were class IV employees, had filed the complaint that they were given less arrears. (20 words)
Major General Georgi Gabriel Gilo said a government-contracted company suspended food supply to the prison over nine-month arrears accumulation. (21 words)
Payments due after these dates in April may contain a mix of the old and new rates as State Pensions and most benefits are paid four-weeks in arrears, which means the full, new uprated amount won’t arrive until the next payment cycle in May. (46 words)
A successful SMP will put the country in good stead to receive fresh lines of credit once it has cleared arrears to the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank after Harare cleared its US$110 million arrears to IMF back in 2015. (43 words)
According to her, the exercise would see ECG officials visit the premises of customers to capture the consumption of their meters, verify meter readings, check the integrity of meters and also engage customers in arrears to pay their bills. (39 words)
Do they have outstanding arrears with N.B. Power and N.B. Housing that need sorting first? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Among non-banks, a greater proportion of private dwelling accounts held are in longer-term arrears when compared to banks, with such entities holding 76 per cent of all accounts in arrears over one year.
Responding to a possible payment of arrears, Nwaeke said it was yet to be determined because a technical committee has been set up to work out a tenable payment chart, which will cater to issues of arrears.
Arvind Kejriwal announces waiver of water bill arrears in Delhi Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a waiver of all arrears of consumers towards Delhi Jal Board.
A successful SMP will put the country in good stead to receive fresh lines of credit once it has cleared arrears to the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank after Harare cleared its US$110 million arrears to IMF back in 2015.
Education Ministry explains delays in salary arrears The Ministry of Education says the government has saved about GH¢11 million from reviewing the data of teachers expecting to be paid their salary arrears by the State.
Several business persons who had outstanding balances on their GST accounts were taken to court and had to make the necessary arrangements to pay their arrears, which were much, much less than BTL’s alleged arrears.
While the country in 2016 cleared its arrears to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it is still in arrears of $1,8 billion to the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
According to her, the exercise would see ECG officials visit the premises of customers to capture the consumption of their meters, verify meter readings, check the integrity of meters and also engage customers in arrears to pay their bills.
According to officials, the complainants who were class IV employees, had filed the complaint that they were given less arrears.
Allegedly, the lessee is currently in arrears for about E40 000, money which they had allegedly agreed with the projects committee to be amortised through yet another renovation of the other structures within the estate that needs maintenance.
Do they have outstanding arrears with N.B. Power and N.B. Housing that need sorting first?
Eskom’s operational viability also hinges on stopping further accumulation of municipal arrears to Eskom and making the electricity tariff setting mechanism fully cost reflective.
He added, “We have ensured prompt and regular payment of pensions to our senior citizens, ending the dark days when elderly persons in the State had to queue under the sun daily lamenting over unpaid pensions and arrears.
He gave assurance that the council was putting in place necessary machineries to address abnormalities in the recruitment of some teachers by the previous administration so that they would get their entitlements and arrears.
He said: “Those kiosks that owe us huge bills in arrears have been given a relief not to pay BWB in the meantime and we have also gone further by providing some overdraft to some kiosks.
In a statement, the board members asked the Minister of Finance and Planning to pay them according to their July 2022 and January 2023 modalities which included past arrears and the new salary scale.
It was short-lived however, as the visitors responded with a Nathan Hughes try, converted by Truelove to reduce the arrears to five points.
Major General Georgi Gabriel Gilo said a government-contracted company suspended food supply to the prison over nine-month arrears accumulation.
On his part, Centre for Social Accountability and Transparency executive director Willy Kambwandira said the arrears put to question the sustainability of the current arrangement.
Payments due after these dates in April may contain a mix of the old and new rates as State Pensions and most benefits are paid four-weeks in arrears, which means the full, new uprated amount won’t arrive until the next payment cycle in May.
Common combinations with arrears
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in arrears 32×
- the arrears 25×
- arrears of 16×
- arrears to 16×
- arrears and 16×
- of arrears 15×
- salary arrears 12×
- arrears for 11×
- arrears in 7×
- arrears with 7×