arrears

1. N-PLURAL Arrears are amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier. 逾期欠款

They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years. 他們已經(jīng)保證在接下來(lái)的5年里付清逾期債款。

2. PHRASE If someone is in arrears with their payments, or falls into arrears, they have not paid the regular amounts of money that they should have paid. 拖欠中

...the 300,000 households who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgages. …拖欠按揭貸款超過(guò)6個(gè)月的30萬(wàn)戶家庭。

3. PHRASE If sums of money such as wages or taxes are paid in arrears, they are paid at the end of the period of time to which they relate, for example, after a job has been done and the wages have been earned. 在 (某段時(shí)間) 之后 (支付)

Interest is paid in arrears after you use the money. 利息在你使用了這筆錢之后支付。