pay : Idioms & Phrases

• noun extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat
  

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Dead"-pay` noun

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1. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.

   O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger.

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• the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.

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• half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay.

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• noun reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time
  

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• noun dire consequences
  
  • when the pig ran away there was hell to pay

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• noun extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers)
  

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• adjective satellite paying nothing
  
  • non-paying guests
  • non-paying bidders on eBay

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• noun a vacation from work by an employee with pay granted
  

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• adjective satellite paid in advance
  
  • paid-up insurance
  • paid-up members

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• noun the British system of withholding tax
  PAYE.
  

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• verb act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
  repay; reward.
  
• verb take vengeance on or get even
  fix; get; pay back.
  
  • We'll get them!
  • That'll fix him good!
  • This time I got him

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• verb pay (for something) with cash
  

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• noun the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
  wage claim.
  

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• noun the act of reducing a salary
  salary cut.
  

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• the day of settlement of accounts.

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• noun ore that yields a substantial profit to the miner
  
• noun a profitable success
  
  • the inventor worked for years before hitting pay dirt

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• (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. Western U.S.

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• noun wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner
  pay envelope.
  

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• verb have as a guest
  invite.
  
  • I invited them to a restaurant

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• verb give heed (to)
  advert; hang; give ear; attend.
  
  • The children in the audience attended the recital quietly
  • She hung on his every word
  • They attended to everything he said

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• verb yield a profit or result
  
  • His efforts finally paid off
• verb eliminate by paying off (debts)
  liquidate.
  
• verb pay off (loans or promissory notes)
  redeem.
  
• verb do or give something to somebody in return
  pay; compensate; make up.
  
  • Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
• verb pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
  buy off.
  
• verb take vengeance on or get even
  fix; get; pay back.
  
  • We'll get them!
  • That'll fix him good!
  • This time I got him

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• a place where payment is made.

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• verb expend, as from a fund
  disburse.
  

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• noun wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner
  pay envelope.
  

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• noun amount of money received per unit time
  pay rate.
  
  • women's pay rate is lower than men's

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• a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due.

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• verb cancel or discharge a debt
  pay; ante up.
  
  • pay up, please!

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• noun a coin-operated telephone
  pay-phone.
  

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• noun a coin-operated telephone
  pay-phone.
  

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• noun paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
  attentiveness; regard; heed.
  
  • his attentiveness to her wishes
  • he spends without heed to the consequences
• adjective taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
  thoughtful; attentive; heedful.
  
  • heedful of the warnings
  • so heedful a writer
  • heedful of what they were doing

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• noun a reciprocal group action
  return; getting even.
  
  • in return we gave them as good as we got

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• noun an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay
  

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• an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods.

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• adverb having the postage paid by the sender
  post-free.
  
  • I will send it post-paid

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• noun amount of money received per unit time
  pay rate.
  
  • women's pay rate is lower than men's

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• adjective satellite with cost of reply prepaid by sender
  
  • reply-paid postcard
  • reply-paid envelope

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• noun wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave
  

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• payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. U.S.

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• noun money paid to strikers from union funds
  

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• noun what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc
  

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• to be courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to court.

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• . (a) To make amends for; to atone for; as, men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life . (b) To give an equivalent for; to bear the expense of; to be mulcted on account of.

  'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your wakings. Beau. & Fl.

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• . Etymol. uncertain. (Naut.) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
• . (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship . (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind.

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• . Etymol. uncertain. To beat with vigor; to redouble blows. Colloq.

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• to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. Colloq.

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• to seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes." Jowett.

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• to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior.

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• to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright.

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• (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable.

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• to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole.

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• Etymol. uncertain. (Naut.) To turn the ship's head.

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• to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.

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• to die.

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• to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. Colloq.
• to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.

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• (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.

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