{
  "id": "payment.economic",
  "term": "payment",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "ordinary",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a transfer of money to satisfy a required obligation",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "give.transfer",
      "required.obligation",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "money is transferred from one party to another to fulfill a necessary duty or claim",
    "novel_properties": [
      "obligated transfer",
      "economic liability settlement",
      "inter-personal resource reallocation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the United States Treasury issued a $1,200 stimulus check to eligible citizens under the American Rescue Plan.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station crew transferred 20 kilograms of water to SpaceX Dragon upon departure as partial payment for cargo return services.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1871, France paid the last installment of its 5-billion-franc war indemnity to Germany following the Franco-Prussian War.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "bill.payment",
    "commission.transaction",
    "employment.economic",
    "gift.present",
    "insurance.financial",
    "jobs.employment",
    "pro.professional",
    "sale.commercial",
    "tax.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "paid",
    "pay",
    "paying",
    "payment",
    "payments",
    "pays"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "added 'people.social' to ground obligation in social context; rephrased definition to be tighter and align with components, removing reliance on 'given.premise' which is not constitutive"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-payment.economic"
}