arrears
arrears
英[əˈrɪəz]美[əˈrɪrz]
n.拖欠，（工作等的）拖延，欠款，待完成的事；
例句
I have to clear off arrears of work and correspondence.我必须处理积压的工作和信件。
I am two or three letters in arrears.我还有两三封信搁着未复。
The payments on that car loan are in arrears by three months.购车贷款的偿付被拖欠了三个月。
arrears of rent欠租
We must mop up the arrears of work.我们必须把耽误的工作做完.
Thousands of its customers are in arrears with loans and mortgage payments.有数千客户拖欠其贷款和抵押贷款还款。
Bailiffs need a certificate from the county court to seize goods for rent arrears.查封官需要有郡法院的证明才能没收货物以抵欠租。
Thousands of its customers are in arrears with loans and mortgage payments...有数千客户拖欠其贷款和抵押贷款还款。
Davies finished almost two seconds in arrears for third place.戴维斯落后了差不多两秒，获得第三名。
Unemployment benefit is paid fortnightly in arrears.失业救济金延后两个星期支付。
词组
in arrears 亦作 主律
behind with paying money that is owed拖欠钱款(of a competitor in a sports race or match) having a lower score or weaker performance than other competitors(赛跑或其他体育比赛中的选手）落后于其他选手的柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-PLURAL
应付欠款；（尤指）逾期债款
Arrears are amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier.
例句
They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years...他们保证在随后的5年内偿付逾期债款。These 50,000 arrears cases represent a tiny fraction of all home owners.这5万个欠款案例只代表所有业主中的一小部分人。PHRASE
拖欠（付款）
If someone is in arrears with their payments, or has got into arrears, they have not paid the regular amounts of money that they should have paid.
例句
...the 300,000 households who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgages.拖欠抵押贷款超过6个月的30万户家庭...debtor countries which fall into arrears with the banks.拖欠银行贷款的债务国PHRASE
（工资等）后付的
If sums of money such as wages or taxes are paid in arrears, they are paid at the end of the period of time to which they relate, for example after a job has been done and the wages have been earned.
例句
Unemployment benefit is paid fortnightly in arrears.失业救济金延后两个星期支付。PHRASE
（体育比赛中成绩或比分）落后的
If someone is in arrears in a sports match or race, they are not winning, because they have a lower score or slower time than other competitors.
例句
Davies finished almost two seconds in arrears for third place.戴维斯落后了差不多两秒，获得第三名。英汉词典释义
n.
欠款, 未付清的款项
arrears of rent欠租(工作等的)拖延,耽搁
待完成的事
拖欠；拖延
The payments on that car loan are in arrears by three months.购车贷款的偿付被拖欠了三个月。I am two or three letters in arrears.我还有两三封信搁着未复。英英词典释义
Noun
1. the state of being behind in payments;
"an account in arrears"2. an unpaid overdue debt
行业词典
体育： 落后；拖延；
法律： 欠款；
金融： 拖欠；欠款；余额拖欠；
