quittance

The word “quittance” has 2 syllables: quitt-ance

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɪtəns/


What is synonym and antonym for quittance?

In the thesaurus, “quittance” has 68 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for quittance along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for quittance

  • adjustment
  • advantage
  • allowance
  • amends
  • atonement
  • benefit
  • bonus
  • bread
  • compensation
  • consideration
  • counterclaim
  • coverage
  • damages
  • defrayal
  • delivery
  • deserts
  • discharge
  • dispensation
  • earnings
  • exemption
  • expiation
  • fee
  • gain
  • honorarium
  • immunity
  • indemnification
  • indemnity
  • meet
  • offset
  • pay
  • payment
  • payoff
  • premium
  • profit
  • punishment
  • punitive damages
  • quietus
  • reciprocity
  • reckoning
  • recompense
  • recoupment
  • redress
  • refund
  • reimbursement
  • release
  • remittal
  • remittance
  • remuneration
  • reparation
  • repayment
  • reprisal
  • requital
  • restitution
  • retaliation
  • reward
  • salary
  • salt
  • satisfaction
  • scale
  • setoff
  • settlement
  • shake
  • solatium
  • stipend
  • take
  • take-home
  • wage
  • waiver

Antonyms for quittance

  • debt
  • disadvantage
  • dissatisfaction
  • hindrance
  • hurt
  • loss
  • penalty

Meanings of quittance

  • noun
    1. A release or acquittal.
    2. A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.
    3. Recompense; return; repayment.

Example Sentences

  • She provided her landlord with the final rent payment as quittance for the lease.
  • The signed contract served as quittance for the debt owed between the two parties.
  • His lawyer assured him that the legal document would act as quittance for any further liabilities.
  • The receipt served as quittance for the goods returned to the store.
  • The certificate of completion acted as quittance for the course requirements.

On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quittance, such as: adjustment, advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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balancing

  • acclimation
  • acclimatization
  • accommodating
  • adjusting
  • aid
  • allegory
  • alteration
  • amendment
  • amends
  • analogizing
  • analogy
  • analysis
  • analyzing
  • arrangement
  • assistance
  • association
  • atonement
  • atoning
  • backing down
  • balanced
  • bringing together
  • change
  • check
  • checking
  • clearing
  • collating
  • collation
  • comparability
  • compensating
  • compensatory
  • conciliation
  • conformance
  • connection
  • consideration
  • considering
  • contrast
  • controlling
  • correcting
  • correction
  • correlation
  • counterbalancing
  • cure
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • debating
  • deciding
  • delaying
  • deliberating
  • deliberation
  • democratizing
  • determining
  • directing
  • directive
  • discharging
  • discrimination
  • distinguishing
  • dithering
  • dividing
  • ease
  • equalizing
  • equating
  • equilibrating
  • equipoising
  • equivocating
  • estimation
  • evaluating
  • evening
  • examination
  • example
  • exemplification
  • faltering
  • feats
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • footing
  • gymnastics
  • halting
  • hanging back
  • hawing
  • hedging
  • hemming
  • hesitating
  • homogenizing
  • identification
  • illustration
  • improvement
  • indemnity
  • investigation
  • judging
  • justice
  • juxtaposition
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • likeness
  • likening
  • lingering
  • liquidating
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • mending
  • metaphor
  • modification
  • normalizing
  • observation
  • offsetting
  • opposition
  • ordering
  • organization
  • organizing
  • orientation
  • oscillating
  • paralleling
  • pausing
  • paying
  • paying off
  • paying up
  • payment
  • pondering
  • ponying up
  • procrastinating
  • pussyfooting
  • quittance
  • quitting
  • ratio
  • readjustment
  • recompense
  • recompensing
  • rectification
  • redress
  • reestablishment
  • reflection
  • reformation
  • regularizing
  • regulating
  • regulation
  • regulative
  • rehabilitation
  • reimbursing
  • relating
  • relation
  • relief
  • remedy
  • remission
  • remodeling
  • renewal
  • repair
  • repairing
  • reparation
  • repaying
  • report
  • reprisal
  • requital
  • resemblance
  • restitution
  • retribution
  • return
  • review
  • revision
  • reward
  • reworking
  • satisfaction
  • scrupling
  • scrutiny
  • segregation
  • separation
  • setting
  • settling
  • shaping
  • shifting
  • shilly-shallying
  • similarity
  • somersaults
  • staggering
  • standardization
  • standardizing
  • standing
  • stunts
  • survey
  • swaying
  • teetering
  • testing
  • thinking over
  • tumbling
  • turning
  • vacillating
  • vengeance
  • verification
  • view
  • wabbling
  • waffling
  • waiting
  • wavering
  • weighing
  • wobbling

quietus

  • annihilation
  • assassination
  • casualty
  • clincher
  • close
  • closure
  • conclusion
  • curtains
  • death
  • decease
  • delivery
  • demise
  • departure
  • destruction
  • discharge
  • dispensation
  • dissolution
  • doom
  • dying
  • end
  • end of the line
  • end of the road
  • ending
  • execution
  • exemption
  • exit
  • expiration
  • expiry
  • extermination
  • fatality
  • fate
  • final blow
  • grave
  • great divide
  • immunity
  • killing
  • loss of life
  • martyrdom
  • massacre
  • mort
  • overthrow
  • passage
  • passing
  • quittance
  • release
  • ruin
  • self-destruction
  • self-murder
  • self-slaughter
  • settlement
  • slaughter
  • sleep
  • suicide
  • waiver
  • withdrawal

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