non-payment

non-payment (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of nonpayment.

   Antonym: payment

   • 1944 March and April, “Notes and News: Weston, Cleveland & Portishead Light Ry.”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:

     [...] it appeared that in 1909 the Excess Insurance Company bought the right to recover certain sums of money due from the light railway company, and, on non-payment, secured the appointment of a Receiver in respect of the undertaking and assets of the company.

   • 1958 September, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 595:

     In one case at least the land on which a station was built seems to have been rented, as it is recorded that in November, 1868, a certain Mr. Rice Thomas threatened to eject the Carnarvonshire Railway from its Pant [Pant Glas] Station for non-payment of rent!

• “non-payment”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.