Pay

Verb

 * 1)  To give money in exchange for goods or services.
 * He paid him to clean the place up.
 * 1)  To be profitable.
 * Crime doesn’t pay.
 * 1)  To be profitable for.
 * It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
 * 1)  To give (something else than money).
 * To pay attention
 * 1)  To discharge an obligation or debt.
 * He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
 * 1)  To suffer consequences.
 * He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.

Related terms

 * payment
 * payer
 * payee

Hypernyms

 * compensate

Hyponyms

 * bribe
 * disburse
 * fund


 * pay off
 * pay out
 * pay up
 * reimburse

Noun

 * 1) Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
 * Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.

Adjectives for Pay
sour; retirement; exorbitant; retroactive; scanty; meager; back; advance.

Verbs for Pay
acquire—; attach—; claim—; crave—; cut —; derive—; deserve—; draw—; entitle to—; exact—; insist on—; merit—; raise—; restore—; solicit—; yield—; —accrues; — compensates; —defrays;  —rewards;  — squares (colloq.).

Adverbs for Pay
moderately; handsomely; grudgingly; bounteously; heavily; cheerfully; annually; punctually; roundly; scantily; meagerly; exorbitantly.

Thesaurus
accomplish, achieve, advantage, afford, angel, answer, attend to, avail, back, bankroll, base pay, be exposed to, be gainful, be had, be handy, be of use, be profitable, be subjected to, be worthwhile, benefit, bestead, bring about, bring in, bring off, bring to pass, budget, capitalize, castigation, chastening, chastisement, come down on, commit, compensate, compensation, condign punishment, correction, cost, cost out, cough up, deserts, disburse, disciplinary measures, discipline, dismissal wage, do, do for, do the trick, do to, earnings, effect, effectuate, emolument, encounter, endure, escalator clause, escalator plan, expend, experience, fee, feel, ferule, fill the bill, finance, financial remuneration, fix, fork out, fund, get satisfaction, give good returns, give it to, go and do, go through, gross, gross income, grubstake, guaranteed annual wage, guerdon, have, hire, income, incur costs, indemnify, inflict, infliction, invest, judgment, judicial punishment, know, labor under, lay out, living wage, make, make amends, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, meet, meet up with, meet with, minimum wage, nemesis, net, net income, open the purse, outlay, overpay, overspend, pains, pains and punishments, pass through, patronize, pay and allowances, pay back, pay by installments, pay dearly, pay exorbitantly, pay for, pay off, pay on, pay out, pay too much, payment, payroll, penal retribution, penalty, penology, perpetrate, plunk, portal-to-portal pay, prepay, produce, profit, provide for, pull off, punishment, punition, purchasing power, put out, quit, real wages, realize, recompense, redress, refinance, remit, remunerate, remuneration, render, repay, requite, retribution, retributive justice, return, reward, run through, run up against, salary, satisfy, schedule, scourge, serve, serve one out, serve the purpose, set up, settle, settle the score, severance pay, shell out, sink money in, sliding scale, spend, splurge, sponsor, squander, stake, stand under, stipend, subsidize, suffer, suffice, support, sustain, take and do, take care of, take-home, take-home pay, taste, taxable income, tender, throw money around, total compensation, undergo, up and do, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, well-deserved punishment, what-for, wreak, yield, yield a profit

Etymology
From payen: from  paier: from  pācāre "to settle, satisfy" from  paco:. Displaced native yelden, yielden "to pay" (from  ġieldan "to pay"),  schotten "to pay, make payment" (from  scot, ġescot "payment").

Verb

 * Arabic: دفع
 * Belarusian: плаціць, заплаціць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 給錢,  给钱,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: क़ीमत देना, वेतन देना
 * Hungarian:, kifizet
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 支払う


 * Ket:
 * Korean:
 * Old Frisian: jelda
 * Persian: پرداختن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:,  заплатить ;  оплачивать ,  оплатить
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: จ่าย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:,  заплатити
 * Urdu:, ادا کرنا
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian: betelje


 * Czech: vyplatit se
 * Danish: betale sig
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: merita; a fi profitabil = (to be profitable)
 * Russian: окупаться (okupát’s’a), окупиться (okupít’s’a)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: izplačati se
 * Spanish:, redituar
 * Swedish: betala sig, löna sig


 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: уделять, уделить


 * : betalen
 * : pagi
 * : maksma, tasuma
 * : verser (une somme), régler
 * : epyme'ẽ (h-)
 * : bayar, membayar, melunasi


 * : pagar
 * : betale
 * : ġieldan
 * : plati
 * : moepy, epyme'eng (s-)

Derived terms

 * pay as you earn
 * pay-as-you-go
 * pay attention
 * pay back
 * pay down
 * payer


 * pay for
 * pay for it
 * pay forward
 * pay in
 * pay off
 * pay one's dues


 * pay respect
 * pay one's respects
 * pay out
 * pay-per-view
 * pay the bills
 * pay the freight


 * pay the penalty
 * pay the piper
 * pay through the nose
 * pay up
 * rob Peter to pay Paul
 * take or pay
 * you get what you pay for

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, (soldier's)
 * Portuguese:


 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * APY
 * pya
 * yap, Yap

Noun

 * 1) share
 * 2) portion

Noun

 * 1) share

Pronoun

 * 1) he, she, it

Noun

 * 1) portion

Etymology
From.

Synonyms

 * hak