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TRANSFER PAYMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transfer payment mean?
• TRANSFER PAYMENT (noun)
The noun TRANSFER PAYMENT has 1 sense:
1. a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services
Familiarity information: TRANSFER PAYMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("transfer payment" is a kind of...):
expenditure; outgo; outlay; spending (money paid out; an amount spent)
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