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2America cannot pay its way or balance a checkbook, so it borrows and has a growing unpayable unimaginable unconcerned
6Children are sometimes given a weekly one by their parents
7It is a fixed amount of money or compensation paid to an employee by an employer in return for work performed.
10A waiter or waitress or bartender often gets them more or less on their service
11A penalty that a court of law or other authority decides has to be paid as punishment for a crime or other offense. Maybe on a nice warm sunny day and of very high quality
12Spousal support (also known as ) is a court ordered payment from one spouse or domestic partner to help cover the other's monthly expenses usually after a divorce
13A payment made by an employer to an employee for work done in a specific period of time like so much per hour.
14The love of it, is the root of not just some, but all kinds of evil 1 Timothy 6:10
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1When you borrow money from a bank or a credit union it is called a
2A gift of substantial monetary value or property given from either the bride or groom to their future spouse upon marriage.
3Being forced to pay or lose your land or home in America is called property
4Cash, check, blood, time or goods that are given to help a person or organization, or the act of giving
5A "defined benefit plan", "defined contribution plan" or "superannuation plan” are made to support the person's retirement from work.
8To redeem from captivity or punishment by paying an equivalent of gold silver or blood as Matthew 20:28 tells us, Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ______ for many.
9In a campaign for public office, to dishonestly persuade (someone) to act in one's favor by a gift of money or other inducement is a
11A payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services