lump sum

1. 1.

   a complete payment consisting of a single sum of money

   Broaderpayment

Questions about lump sum

What does lump sum mean?

lump sum means "a complete payment consisting of a single sum of money".

Is lump sum a common word?

lump sum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.