'make direct payment' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to paying someone directly and not through a third party. For example: "I would prefer to make a direct payment to the contractor rather than going through a middle-man."
This paper examines an effort to make direct payments for ecosystem services (PES) in an agricultural landscape.
Both the European Union and America make direct payments to promote the use of less intrusive forms of cultivation and the setting aside of land.
This month, for example, it added the option to make direct payments to its service, letting users donate a specified sum directly to a website.
to make direct payments to an educational institution on behalf of a participating employee or to reimburse a participating employee for all or any portion of any tuition or related educational expenses paid by the employee.
But the state's funeral homes wanted to preserve a decades-old system in which New Yorkers can make direct payments to funeral homes in advance, cutting the insurance agent and insurance company out.
The Payments Council, the body coordinating the launch, expects 1bn Paym payments to be made by 2018 as bank customers use the service to make direct payments to people such as window cleaners and babysitters just by pressing a few buttons on their smartphones.
We shouldn't be put off investing by the 'graph of doom': Investing in prevention has to be the way forward and in a county like Surrey we have recognised that the prevention "offer" (I hate that word but you know what I mean) needs investment and for us that means £10m over five years to help build the social capital which will make direct payments affordable.
In addition to the annual gift tax exclusion, there is a 100% exclusion when you make direct payments for someone's medical bills or tuition expenses.
Now customers will be able to make direct payments of their invoices, resulting in faster transactions and reduced rates for international transfers compared to regular banks.
