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pay | American Dictionary
pay verb (GIVE MONEY FOR)
pay verb (GIVE EARNINGS)
pay verb (PROFIT)
The moral is, "Crime doesn’t pay."
pay verb (PROVIDE)
pay
payable
Please make your check payable to Broadway Antiques.
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Phrasal verbs
(Definition of pay from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
pay | Business English
pay for sth Who paid for the meal?
pay sb to do sth We'll need to pay a builder to take this wall down.
pay sb for sth How much did they pay you for the computer?
pay sb for doing sth Did the company pay you for doing the quote?
pay in/with sth They paid for the car in cash.
He hates his job, but at least it pays well.
pay 20/€50/£5,etc.forsthTheypay20/€50/£5, etc. for sth They pay 20/€50/£5,etc.forsthTheypay30 an hour for editing work.
I don't get paid until the end of the month.
pay over the odds (for sth) UK informal
to pay more for something than it is really worth:
pay through the nose (for sth) informal
to pay too much money for something:
pay top dollar (for sth) US
to pay a lot of money for something:
Phrasal verbs
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(Definition of pay from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of pay
pay
It holds that it is never permitted to pay for an object x, if x could have been obtained for free.
Have consumers pay the difference for costlier plans, if they think they provide better value.
Suddenly, organic farming was seen by both growers and retailers as a lucrative market, with consumers willing to pay a premium.
To this end it is disappointing that the book has paid only scant attention to the psychological processes in the disorder.
More recently however, increasing attention has been paid to the psychological aspects of space.
The remaining parties agreed to pay their own costs.
Class, paid employment and family roles : making sense of structural disadvantage, gender and health status.
In any case, now that the big cosmetics companies were paying for research into alternatives, they were no longer available as targets.
Willingness to pay for ultrasound in normal pregnancy.
One possibility is that these words were truly ignored-learners paid no attention to them whatsoever.
Further justification was found in the number of leaders who paid the ultimate price.
It also remains unclear who paid for them.
The _pay_-off for keeping the children truthful was that their utterances could be interpreted seriously.
Second, there has been increased attention paid to the rate of permanent injury.
Work on the project paid poorly and involved high risks : permanent disability and death were a constant specter.
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Collocations with pay
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That provision excluded the actual annual pay.
Last week saw our proposals on hedge funds and private equity, as well as on executive pay.
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