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Lump Sum

Definition: Lump Sum

Lump Sum

Noun

1. A complete payment consisting of a single sum of money.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Lump Sum

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Money

Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lump Sum

Specialty definitions using "lump sum": balloon mortgage, balloon payment, birth grantmaternity grantPresumptive taxationsecurities redeemable by instalments, securities redeemable in tranches, serial securities. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Lump Sum

DomainTitle

Books

  • Handboek lump sum v.o (reference)

  • Lump Sum Investment: The Daily Telegraph Guide (Daily Telegraph Guides) (reference)

  • Selection of Consultants: Including Consultants' Services: Complex Time-Based Assignments, Lump Sum Assignments and Small Assignments: Time-Base (reference)

  • Standard Form of Contract: Consultants' Services: Lump Sum Renumeration (reference)

  • The Lump Sum Advisor (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Lump Sum

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The cessions provided for in the present Article shall entail a credit of which the total amount, settled in a lump sum by the arbitrator or arbitrators, shall not in any case exceed the value of the capital expended in the initial establishment of the material ceded, and shall be set off against the total sums due from Germany, in consequence, the indemnification of the proprietors shall be a matter for Germany to deal with. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lump Sum

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Many of Saudi Aramco's contracts are awarded on a lump sum turnkey basis. (references)

A good number of Saudi Aramco's contracts are awarded on a lump sum turnkey basis. (references)

Payment in the UAE is generally done on a lump sum basis, as opposed to cost plus or other schemes. (references)

Economic History

India

Royalties and lump sum payments are taxed at 20 to 30 percent. (references)

Croatia

The Law also provides a one-time lump sum subsidy of HRK 15,000 (approximately USD 1,800) to the new investment for each new employee. (references)

India

Attorneys are proposing a combination of discounted fees, blended hourly rates, partly deferred fees, overall caps and/or lump sum fees. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

In response, the government and "social partners" renegotiated a clause in the Partnership Program in order to award a 2 percent increase in basic pay to all employees from April 1, 2001, and a one-time, lump sum payment of 1 percent to all employees as of April 1, 2002. (references)

Women

Japan

As of November 21, the AWF had collected donations totaling approximately $4.33 million (548 million yen) and given lump sum payments of almost $2.97 million (376 million yen) and a letter of apology signed by the Prime Minister to more than 188 women from the Philippines, Korea, and Taiwan. (references)

Worker Rights

Kuwait

Once a worker files a claim, the courts decide the amount of compensation, which is paid in one lump sum rather than monthly payments. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Lump Sum

Expressions using "lump sum": a lump sum estimate in a lump sum. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lump Sum

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lump sum

27

lump sum distribution

20

lump sum pension

12

lump sum payment

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Lump Sum

Language Translations for "lump sum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumë e madhe (herculean), një dorë parash (packet). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مبلغ من المال (kitty, penny, sum), ‏دفعة واحدة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

глобална сума, обща сума (amount). (various references)

   

Czech

  

paušální suma. (various references)

   

Danish

  

refusion med et standardbeløb (lump-sum refund, lump-sum reimbursement, refund in a lump sum), refusion med et fikseret beløb (lump-sum refund, lump-sum reimbursement, refund in a lump sum). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vergoeding tegen een vast bedrag (lump-sum refund, lump-sum reimbursement, refund in a lump sum), forfaitaire vergoeding (lump-sum refund, lump-sum reimbursement, refund in a lump sum). (various references)

   

French

  

montant forfaitaire. (various references)

   

German

  

pauschalsumme, pauschalbetrag (lumped sum). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εφάπαξ (once). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

סכום ח" פעמי, סכום כולל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

átalány (a lump sum, overhead). (various references)

   

Italian

  

forfait (withdrawal). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

一時金 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いちじき". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umplay umsay

   

Portuguese

  

importância global. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

общая сумма. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukupna suma (total). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cantidad a tanto alzado (flat rate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klumpsumma (lumpsum). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yuvarlak hesap, toplu para, toplu ödeme. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lump Sum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "l-m-m-p-s-u-u"

-2 letters: lumps, lupus, mumps, mumus, plums, slump.

-3 letters: lump, lums, mump, mums, mumu, plum, plus, puls, slum, sulu, sump, ulus, umps.

-4 letters: lum, mum, mus, pul, pus, sum, sup, ulu, umm, ump, ups.

-5 letters: mm, mu, um, up, us.

 Words containing the letters "l-m-m-p-s-u-u"
 

+1 letter: plumbums.

 

+4 letters: multicampus.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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