interest in arrears

noun [U] FINANCE

Definition

› interest relating to a particular period of a loan, calculated or paid at the end of the period: The company went bankrupt owing $2.4 million of interest in arrears.

(Definition of interest in arrears noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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