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A legal term for the part of a debt that is overdue after missing a required payment(s). The term is usually used in relation with periodically recurring payments such as rent, bills, royalties, and child support.
- He ran into difficulties with his mortgage, building up more than $9,000 in arrears.
- About 270,000 homeowners were more than three months in arrears.
Arrears by OH-BANG-10 November 9, 2019
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1. rookstahnday
2. feces
3. the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations -- usually used in plural
4. an unfinished duty -- usually used in plural
they may eat arrears.
arrears by the beive master December 19, 2003
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noun: arrows, darts, flingers, points, pfliegens... el dartios, el flingtos.
adjective, arrers i.e particularly good arrers
*watch my arrers
*i've just flung my arrers. smell my arrers.
*how's your arrers? no bad.. yours? aye, no bad. but not a patch on my arrers? ... aye? what are your arrers like?

ARRRERS
arrers by Louise Lualubelle September 9, 2006
noun: arrows, darts, flingers, points, pfliegens... el dartios, el flingtos.
adjective, arrers i.e particularly good arrers
*watch my arrers
*i've just flung my arrers. smell my arrers.
*how's your arrers? no bad.. yours? aye, no bad. but not a patch on my arrers? ... aye? what are your arrers like?

ARRRERS
arrers by Louise Lualubelle September 9, 2006

career in arrear 

a career that is yet to get developed or that is in the making.
After passing the exam, he got a job in a bank. However, he still has a career in arrear.

arrearea 

That section of area in that area over there is ready to be dug up.

That arrearea is ready to be dug up.
arrearea by DingoD March 29, 2007
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