Definition of Support payment

1. Noun. A payment made by one person for the support of another.

Generic synonyms: Payment
Specialized synonyms: Palimony, Alimony, Maintenance, Child Support

Lexicographical Neighbors of Support Payment

supply side
supply teacher
supply teachers
supplyant
supplying
supplyment
supplyments
support
support column
support dog
support force
support group
support groups
support hose
support level
support payment (current term)
support stocking
support system
supportability
supportable
supportableness
supportably
supportance
supportation
supported
supportedly
supporter
supporters
supportful
supporting

Literary usage of Support payment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Child Support for Custodial Mothers and Fathers, 1991 by Lydia Scoon-Rogers, Gordon H. Lester (1999)
"The mean child support payment received by divorced or separated women with full or partial payment was the highest ..."

2. Evaluating Agri-Environmental Policies: Design, Practice and Results by SourceOECD (Online service) (2005)
"From the taxpayer's standpoint, there is no net cost to the AES: a support payment has been transferred to an AES payment. Overall, then, and relative to ..."

3. The Michigan Digest Annotated: Embodying All Reported Decisions from the by Albert Poole Jacobs, Henry Allen Chaney, George Foster Longsdorf, Callaghan and Company (1920)
"Showing and record to support payment to guardian or § 366. Payment or delivery into trust for heir. § 368. Liability for bequest improperly delivered or ..."

4. Child Support Reform: We Owe It to Our Children, Minnesota Proposals by Hubert H. Humphrey, III (1994)
"They will receive a guaranteed child support payment but it will be deducted ... Of course, marrying the father of the child ends the child support payment, ..."

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