The phrase "a substantial payment for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant amount of money given in exchange for goods, services, or other considerations.
Example: "The company made a substantial payment for the new software license, ensuring they had access to the latest features."
Alternatives: "a significant fee for" or "a considerable sum for".
Young won a substantial payment from a jury but it was reduced on appeal.
The accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed yesterday to make a "substantial payment" to the Internal Revenue Service for marketing corporate tax shelters and then failing to comply with rules requiring it to keep a list of such shelters and the clients who used them.
"The very clear and unmistakable intention of both Ray Charles and all his children was that, in exchange for a substantial payment, the children were not to raise any claims against their father's estate," Ms. Ervin said in a statement.
"In the absence of text stating that the 'gift' was in exchange for a substantial payment, we considered that the claim 'in a symbolic gesture of friendship between the countries' in conjunction with the terms 'gift' and 'gifting' implied that the pandas were provided by China for free.
Wylie told the committee that Kogan's company was set up exclusively for the purposes of obtaining data for CA, and said the firm chose to work with Kogan because another professor it had approached first had asked for a substantial payment up front and a 50% equity share — whereas he had agreed to work on the project to obtain the data first, and consider commercial terms later.
"There was a substantial payment made in order to settle the litigation," said Jeffrey J. Temple, a lawyer for the sponsor, a company controlled by the crown prince of Dubai.
Her immigration attorney, she told me, refused to return her paperwork without a substantial payment.
The settlement includes a substantial payment to the State of Minnesota, the two sides said.
