arrears

英 [əˈrɪəz]

美 [əˈrɪrz]

n. 逾期欠款

复数：arrears　

Collins.1 / BNC.8104

习惯用语

be in arrears

get/fall into arrears

in arrears

后付；拖欠；拖延
if money or a person is paid in arrears for work, the money is paid after the work has been done

noun

逾期欠款
money that sb owes that they have not paid at the right time
1. rent/mortgage/tax arrears
  拖欠租金 / 按揭贷款 / 税款

N-PLURAL 应付欠款；（尤指）逾期债款
Arrearsare amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier.
1. They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years...
  他们保证在随后的5年内偿付逾期债款。
2. These 50,000 arrears cases represent a tiny fraction of all home owners.
  这5万个欠款案例只代表所有业主中的一小部分人。
PHRASE 拖欠（付款）
If someone isin arrears withtheir payments, or has gotinto arrears, they have not paid the regular amounts of money that they should have paid.
1. ...the 300,000 households who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgages.
  拖欠抵押贷款超过6个月的30万户家庭
2. ...debtor countries which fall into arrears with the banks.
  拖欠银行贷款的债务国
PHRASE （工资等）后付的
If sums of money such as wages or taxes are paidin 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.
1. Unemployment benefit is paid fortnightly in arrears.
  失业救济金延后两个星期支付。
PHRASE （体育比赛中成绩或比分）落后的
If someone isin arrearsin a sports match or race, they are not winning, because they have a lower score or slower time than other competitors.
1. Davies finished almost two seconds in arrears for third place.
  戴维斯落后了差不多两秒，获得第三名。

noun

He was two weeks in arrears with the rent.
他已拖欠了两个星期的房租。
He promised to pay me the arrears on time, but I don't believe he'll come across with it.
他答应到时候把钱还给我，但我不相信他会这样做。
The arrears payments were even more crippling.
偿付欠款造成了更为严重的损害。
They were in arrears with their mortgage, so their home was repossessed.
他们未按时还按揭贷款，所以房子被收回了。
Most of his other few possessions had long since been sold to pay arrears of rent.
他的其他一些不多的财产大部分都早已被变卖还了欠租。
More than half of the construction projects, enterprises are in arrears of the existence of the phenomenon.
一半以上的建筑业企业都存在被拖欠工程款的现象。
He vanished leaving massive arrears.
他突然失踪了，留下了大笔欠款。
Cleaning up Loans in Arrears and Quickening the Fund Turnover of Enterprise.
（七）清理拖欠货款，加快企业资金周转。
The company finally paid the turnover tax in arrears.
这间公司终于补交了他们偷漏的流转税。
EXAMPLE: The tenant lost his job and soon his rent payments were in arrears.
房客失去了工作，不久他便拖欠租金。