Payments

Question 1

admission

Answer 1

• [uncountable] the amount of money that you pay to go into a building or to an event

admission charges/prices
£5 admission
What’s the admission?

Question 2

a/per head

Answer 2

• ​for each person

The meal worked out at $20 a head.

Question 3

bail (noun)

Answer 3

• [uncountable] money that somebody agrees to pay if a person accused of a crime does not appear at their trial. When bail has been arranged, the accused person is allowed to go free until the trial.

Can anyone put up bail for you?
She was released on £2 000 bail.
Bail was set at $1 million.
The judge granted/refused bail.

• on bail

He committed another offence while he was out on bail (= after bail had been agreed).

Question 4

arrears

/əˈrɪəz/

Answer 4

• money that somebody owes that they have not paid at the right time

rent/mortgage/tax arrears

Question 5

be in arrears | get/fall into arrears

Answer 5

• ​to be late in paying money that you owe

We’re two months in arrears with the rent.
Our tenants have fallen into arrears with their rent.

Question 6

tenant

Answer 6

• a person who pays rent for the use of a room, building, land, etc. to the person who owns it

They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent

Question 7

​evict somebody (from something)

Answer 7

• to force somebody to leave a house or land, especially when you have the legal right to do so

Police had to evict demonstrators from the building.

Question 8

blank cheque

Answer 8

• a cheque that is signed but which does not have the amount of money to be paid written on it
• permission or authority to do something that is necessary in a particular situation

The President was given a blank check by Congress to continue the war.

Question 9

bonus

Answer 9

*an extra amount of money that is added to a payment, especially to somebody’s wages or salary as a reward

a £100 Christmas bonus
productivity bonuses

Question 10

no-claims bonus

Answer 10

• a reduction in the cost of your insurance because you made no claims in the previous year

a five-year no-claims bonus
to lose your no-claims bonus

Question 11

bribe (noun)

Answer 11

• a sum of money or something valuable that you give or offer to somebody to persuade them to help you, especially by doing something dishonest

It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office.
She had been offered a $50 000 bribe to drop the charges.

Question 12

bribe (verb)

Answer 12

• bribe somebody (with something)

They bribed the guards with cigarettes.

• bribe somebody into doing something

She was bribed into handing over secret information.

• bribe somebody to do something

She bribed him to sign the certificate.

• bribe your way

He managed to bribe his way onto the ship.
He must have bribed his way out of the prison