Definition of "in arrears" []

• In debt (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I am in arrears with even "the needle-work of the Family.""
• "By June he was ten thousand dollars in arrears to Comfort Sands."
• "This candidate, Hawk-infield pointed out, was three months in arrears on his water bill, regularly had his wife's parking tickets voided, and at one time succeeded in hushing up his own felonious bad-check charge."