先さき払ばらい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment

Paying before receiving goods or services. Common in business and everyday transactions.

See also: 前払い

• このホテルは先さき払ばらい制せいです。

  This hotel requires payment in advance.

• 商しょう品ひんを先さき払ばらいで注ちゅう文もんした。

  I ordered the product with advance payment.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

payment on delivery; collect on delivery

Used for services where the sender pays in advance, such as business-reply mail or collect calls. The opposite of 着払い (payment by recipient).

See also: 着払い (ちゃくばらい)

• 返へん信しん用よう封ふう筒とうは先さき払ばらいでお送おくりします。

  We will send the reply envelope with postage paid.

• コレクトコールは先さき払ばらいになります。

  Collect calls are paid by the sender.

noun

forerunner; precursor

Rare, literary use for something that comes before and signals a later development.

• この発はつ明めいは現げん代だいコンピューターの先さき払ばらいと言いえる。

  This invention can be called a forerunner of the modern computer.