arrear , auch: arear old use

As Andrew seldom bothered to come in, poor old Peace was getting into arrear.

The whole line, it appeared, was topsy-turvy; an accident at midnight having thrown all the traffic hours into arrear.

Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines.

"You'll sell me up at last, I suppose, when I am a day in arrear."

In other contexts, payment at the end of a period is referred to by the singular arrear, to distinguish from past due payments.

If the rent is payable in arrear, the date chosen should be the day after a rent day.

In Arrear, teams had to herd three ostriches from one corral to another without touching or scaring them to receive their next clue.

Imagining, however, that success was now within his grasp, he dismissed some of his mercenaries and kept the pay of the rest in arrear.

My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done.

As the new capital drew closer, therefore, our debts mounted up, including the debt to ourselves, for at that time our salaries were two months in arrear.

The accuracy was limited by the accuracy of optical observation, and corrections of clocks and time signals were published in arrear.

In September Hayhurst wrote to the Goldsmiths to complain that his salary was several quarters in arrear.

"I have called to remind you, Mr. Pinkerton, that you are somewhat in arrear of taxes," he said, with old- fashioned, stately courtesy.

'Specific provision is made where the property is in possession and/or where the account is in arrear,' the report says.

This came about the middle of the month when we were two months in arrear with salaries and trade creditors for £2,750 were threatening us with writs.

At his death, which occurred at his chambers in Serjeants' Inn 27 March 1683, it was three years and six months in arrear.

Precise usage may differ slightly (e.g. "in arrear" or "in arrears" for the same situation) in different English-speaking countries.

In this Leg's Detour, teams had to choose between Arrear (Herd) and Buscar (Search).

The occupational sub-lessees were seven years in arrear with their rent and the result was the Ballykilcline "removals" - free emigration to the new world in 1846.

--I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy, had fallen sadly into arrear.

Open my letters as usual; you will find the answers a good deal in arrear, which has much vexed me; and besides, I was always stumbling on some stupid nonsense or other!"

I served two campaigns under him without honour, sack, plunder, or emolument, save a beggarly stipend of three gulden a day, paid in clipped money, six months in arrear.

The tenants, when in a condition, are said to have sent him free gifts in proportion to their circumstances, but are now a year and a-half in arrear of rent".

Every feeling was offended; and the forbearance of her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable goodwill of Mr. Weston's temper.

In 1819-20 the agitation of old debts and claims that had their origin during the late government and were in fact an arrear of the Peshwa's file, brought an accumulation of 4603 suits.