payment

noun

The act of paying or the state of being paid.

An amount paid.

One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.

The act of paying; the delivery of money as payment, in the course of business.

More specifically, in law, the discharge of a pecuniary obligation by money or what is accepted as the equivalent of a specific sum of money; “the satisfaction, by or in the name of the debtor, to the creditor, of what is due, with the object to put an end to the obligation” (Goudsmit).