Definitions | arrear |
| noun
- Work to be done, obligation.
- I have a large of letters to write. -- J. D. Forbes.
- My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off. -- Stoker, Dracula
- Unpaid debt.
adverb
- (rfv-sense) behind, backward
- (--) rent considerably in , and heartless landlady threatening expulsion (--) -- Dickens: Our Mutual Friend
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