1. 款：付 to pay | 款 section; paragraph; fund; sum of money; (mw for versions or models) | 处 get along with; be in; deal with; punish, place; department
2. 款项：sum of maintenance ==> 维护费 | sum of money ==> 款项 | sum of newly-gained national income ==> 新增国民收入
1. By 2000, she had given birth to her daughter and earned a fair sum of money.
2. There has already been a huge sum of hot money in China after the high yield in the capital market.
3. His son then used the card to deposit a large sum of money into the account.
4. The United States encourages Japan to spend a big sum of money in certain fields, such as the reconstruction of Iraq.
5. A large number of sex workers in cheap hair salons and massage stores could not afford that sum of money.
6. The swindlers charged unwary investors high fees for fake stock tips and then quickly disappeared after having collected a huge sum of money.
7. In December she settled her dispute with the dancer by giving her a sum of money in compensation.
8. The man has confessed to spending the large sum of money on his mistress, who dumped him soon after he divorced his wife last year.
9. The construction of a metro takes time and a big sum of money.
10. It is reasonable that a local government spends a certain sum of money to reward entrepreneurs in gratitude for their contribution to local employment.
noun
1. a quantity of money
e.g. he borrowed a large sum
the amount he had in cash was insufficient
Synonym: sum amount amount of money