Crossword-Solution: ARREAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arrear | adv. | To or in the rear; behind; backwards. |
| Arrear | n. | That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARREAR (5)
Godfrey’s charitable work was in arrear, I thought it odd that he should be going out driving, like an idle man.
See Arrear.] ½That which is behind¸; the rear; Ð chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.
Endless, and endless now on either side, the tall oaks closed in their ranks and stood gloomily lowering over us, as grim as an army of giants with a thousand years’ pay in arrear.
Seward’s Diary._ _17 September._--I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy, had fallen sadly into arrear.
XCV For who can govern cowardice or fear? Their host already was begun to fly, They cast their shields and cutting swords arrear, As not defended but made slow thereby, A hollow dale the city’s bulwarks near From west to south outstretched long doth lie, Thither they fled, and in a mist of dust, Toward the walls they run, they throng, they thrust.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 70 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).