ARREAR

Definition: ARREAR

ARREAR

Adverb

1. To or in the rear; behind; backwards.

Noun

1. That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ARREAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Debt	Unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear, outstanding; past due.
Incompleteness	Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared).
Nonpayment	Adjective: not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt; behindhand, in arrear, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared; (poor); unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: ARREAR

Specialty definitions using "ARREAR": KENT-STREET EJECTMENT. (references)

Etymologies containing "ARREAR": Arriere. (references)

Non-English Usage: "ARREAR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (bridle, gear, harness).

Domain	Title
Books	Conducir Gente Es Tan Dificil Como Arrear Gatos (reference) Special report of the Auditor-General on outstanding financial statements, arrear audit reports, and undisposed matters of local governments in the Gauteng Province (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"ARREAR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ARREAR" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	24	71,196

Expressions using "ARREAR": in arrear ♦ in arrear of ♦ rent arrear. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "ARREAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏متأخر (back, behindhand, belated, late, outstanding, overdue, slow, tardy). (various references)

Bulgarian		задълженост (arrearage, indebtedness). (various references)

Chinese		� 款 (arrears). (various references)

Danish		udestående renter (arrear of interest), restance på indkrævet kapital (calls in arrear), præmierestance (premium in arrear), forsinket udbytte (arrear of dividend, dividend paid in arrears). (various references)

Dutch		achterstallige rente (arrear of interest), achterstallige premie (premium in arrear), achterstallig dividend (arrear of dividend, dividend paid in arrears), nog niet gestort doch reeds opgevraagd aandelenkapitaal (calls in arrear). (various references)

Finnish		maksamaton osuus osakepääomasta (calls in arrear). (various references)

French		arriéré d'honoraires (arrear of emoluments), arrérage (arrear of interest), versements restants dus sur capital appelé (calls in arrear), prime arriérée (premium in arrear), intérêt arriéré (arrear of interest), dividende arriéré (arrear of dividend, dividend paid in arrears). (various references)

German		Rückstand (arrearage, arrears, backlock, backlog, delay, overdue, remainder, remains, residual, residue, residuum, rest, slippage), rückständige Prämie (premium in arrear), rückständige Dividende (arrear of dividend, dividend paid in arrears), rückständige Bezüge (arrear of emoluments), eingeforderte ausstehende Einlagen (calls in arrear), Dividendenrückstände (arrears of dividends). (various references)

Greek		καθυστερούμενη πληρωμή. (various references)

Hebrew		פ�'ור (backwardness, delay, lag, lagging, regression, retardation, tardiness), חוב (debt). (various references)

Hungarian		lemaradás (arrears, fallback, lag, lagging). (various references)

Italian		arretrato (arrearage, arrears, back, backlock, backward, backwardly, behindhand, outstanding, residue, stuffy, under developed, underdeveloped). (various references)

Korean		연체료 (arrears). (various references)

Manx		aneeaghyn (arrears), aneeaghan (arrears), feeaghyn (amortization, arrears, commitment, dues, expenses), cooyl-feeaghyn (arrears). (various references)

Pig Latin		arrearay

Portuguese		atraso (arrears, backwardness, delay, lag, lagging, lateness, retard, retardation, retardment), conta atrasada. (various references)

Romanian		restanţã (arrears, debt). (various references)

Russian		задолженность (arrearage, arrears, backlog, indebtedness). (various references)

Spanish		atrasos (arrears, backlog, backlogs). (various references)

Swedish		resterande skuld. (various references)

Turkish		borç (accommodation, arrears, care, debit, debt, encumbrance, liability, loan, obligation, red), bakiye (arrears, balance, effects, remainder, remaining balance, remnant, residuum, rest). (various references)

Ukrainian		хвіст колони, задня частина (stern). (various references)

Vietnamese		đằng sau (after). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ARREAR": arrearage, arrearages, arrears. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"ARREAR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahrar, aramar, arar, areae, areer, areor, Arnar, Aroeira, arreer, carrear, Crerar, irrepr, Narvekar, rarea. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-r-r-r"
	-1 letter: rarer.
	-2 letters: area, rare, rear.
	-3 letters: are, ear, era, err.
	-4 letters: aa, ae, ar, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-r-r-r"
	+1 letter: arrayer, arrears.
	+2 letters: arranger, arrayers, barrater, narrater, rearward, terraria.
	+3 letters: arrangers, arrearage, barracker, barraters, narraters, rearguard, rearrange, rearwards, ultrarare, warranter.
	+4 letters: arbitrager, arrearages, arteriolar, barrackers, barratries, prearrange, preparator, railroader, rearranged, rearranges, remarriage, warranters.
	+5 letters: arbitragers, arbitrageur, arteriogram, ballcarrier, cardsharper, irreparable, irreparably, overarrange, paragrapher, paraphraser, paratrooper, prearranged, prearranges, premarriage, preparators, preparatory, racetracker, radiotracer, railroaders, rearranging, remarriages, trainbearer.
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