Antonyms of noun payment

2 of 3 senses of payment

Sense 1
payment -- (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)
       Antonym of nonpayment (Sense 2)
      => nonpayment, default, nonremittal -- (loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid)

Sense 2
payment, defrayal, defrayment -- (the act of paying money)
       Antonym of nonpayment (Sense 3)
      => evasion, nonpayment -- (the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun payment

3 senses of payment

Sense 1
payment -- (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)
       => cost -- (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Sense 2
payment, defrayal, defrayment -- (the act of paying money)
       => commerce, commercialism, mercantilism -- (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sense 3
requital, payment -- (an act of requiting; returning in kind)
       => return, paying back, getting even -- (a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got")