say it: nahn-PAY-muhnt
nonpayment is a noun meaning "act of failing to meet a financial obligation". It carries 3 recorded senses.
act of failing to meet a financial obligation
loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
the deliberate act of failing to pay money
“his evasion of all his creditors”
“he was indicted for nonpayment”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonpayment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.