time-payment

noun — 2 senses

time-payment

noun

1

Dated Payment that is based on the total amount of time worked.

2

Dated Payment that is made in installments.

Meals he procured at the sixpenny restaurant on the time-payment system, the consumption of meals being invariably in advance of the ratio paid for the allegedly humorous drawings.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 153:

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