A meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration; a very small payment.

Money that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver.

(finance) A schedule defining the dates and amounts of payments to be made for a financial instrument such as a bond and a derivative.

(idiomatic, business, ethics, euphemistic) A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.

(chiefly US, idiomatic, business, law, ethics) A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.

(finance) Any service provided by a financial institution to allow one person or organization to pay another for a product or service

(law) The agreed discharge of a debt by giving something differing in character from that of the original debt

(economics) A redistribution of income in the market system initiated by a government, such as welfare, social security, etc.

(banking) A card, such as a credit card or debit card, which can be used for payment of goods or services.

plural of balloon payment