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Definition: Meaning of, pay in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / peɪ /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
pay paid paid
Present Participle Third Person Singular
paying pays
  1. give money [intransitive and transitive] to give someone money for something you buy or for a service
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  2. bill/tax/rent [transitive] to pay money that you owe to a person, company etc
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  3. wage/salary [intransitive and transitive] to give someone money for the job they do
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  4. pay attention (to somebody/something) to watch, listen to, or think about someone or something carefully
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  5. legal cost [transitive] to give money to someone because you are ordered to by a court as part of a legal case
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  6. say something good [transitive] to say something good or polite about or to someone
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  7. good result [intransitive] if a particular action pays, it brings a good result or advantage for you
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  8. profit [intransitive] if a shop or business pays, it makes a profit
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  9. pay the penalty/price to experience something unpleasant because you have done something wrong, made a mistake etc
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  10. pay a call/visit , pay somebody a call/visit to visit a person or place
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  11. put paid to something British English to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something
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  12. be punished [intransitive] to suffer or be punished for something you have done wrong
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  13. pay your way to pay for everything that you want without having to depend on anyone else for money
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  14. pay for itself if something you buy pays for itself, the money it saves over a period of time is as much as the product cost to buy
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  15. the devil/hell to pay used to say that someone will be in a lot of trouble about something
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  16. pay through the nose (for something) spoken to pay much more for something than it is really worth
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  17. somebody has paid their debt to society used to say that someone who has done something illegal has been fully punished for it
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  18. 'pay court (to somebody) old-fashioned to treat someone, especially a woman, carefully and with respect, so that they will like you or help you
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  19. he who pays the piper calls the tune old-fashioned used to say that the person who gives the money for something can decide how it will be used
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  1. money that you are given for doing your job
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  2. in the pay of somebody written someone who is in someone else's pay is working for them, often secretly
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pay used in phrases

  • Equal Pay Act, the
    1. a law in the UK, passed in 1970, which says that men and women should get equal pay for doing the same work, and should have the same conditions of employment
  • combat pay (noun)
    1. extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat
  • half-pay (noun)
    1. reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time
  • hell to pay (noun)
    1. dire consequences
  • merit pay (noun)
    1. especially to school teachers extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit
  • pay TV (noun)
    1. television CHANNEL s that you must pay to watch [↪  pay-per-view]
  • pay as you earn (noun)
    1. the British system of withholding tax
  • pay cash (verb)
    1. for something pay with cash
  • pay claim (noun)
    1. the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
  • pay cut (noun)
    1. the act of reducing a salary
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pay used in phrasal verbs

  • pay back (phrasal verb)
    1. to give someone the same amount of money that you borrowed from them
    2. to do something bad to someone because they have done something bad to you
  • pay in (phrasal verb)
    1. to put money into your bank account
  • pay into (phrasal verb)
    1. British English to put money into your bank account
    2. pay into something, pay something into something to invest money in something such as an insurance policy or a pension fund so that you will receive money in the future
  • pay off (phrasal verb)
    1. [intransitive] if something that you do pays off, it brings you some benefit
    2. [transitive] to give someone all the money that you have borrowed from them to buy something
  • pay out (phrasal verb)
    1. [transitive] to spend or pay money, especially a lot of money
    2. [intransitive/transitive] to provide money from an amount invested over a period of time
  • pay up (phrasal verb)
    1. to pay money that you owe, especially when you are unwilling to pay
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