pay
verb
[ peɪ ]
• give (someone) money that is due for work done, goods received, or a debt incurred.
• "the traveller paid a guide to show him across"
Similar:
reward,
reimburse,
recompense,
give payment to,
settle up with,
remunerate,
tip,
indemnify,
defray the cost of,
settle up for,
finance,
endow,
donate/leave money for,
support,
back,
stake,
fund,
capitalize,
provide finance/capital for,
furnish credit for,
subsidize,
sponsor,
treat someone to,
foot the bill for,
shell out for,
fork out for,
cough up for,
ante up for,
pony up for,
• suffer a misfortune as a consequence of an action.
• "they paid for his impatience"
Similar:
suffer,
suffer the consequences,
be punished,
pay a penalty,
atone,
make atonement,
pay the price,
get one's deserts,
take one's medicine,
get one's comeuppance,
• give (attention, respect, or a compliment) to (someone).
• "no one paid them any attention"
Similar:
bestow,
present,
grant,
give,
hand out,
extend,
offer,
proffer,
render,
afford,
pay
noun
• the money paid to someone for regular work.
• "an entitlement to sickness pay"
Similar:
salary,
wages,
wage,
take-home pay,
gross/net pay,
payment,
earnings,
fee(s),
remuneration,
stipend,
emolument(s),
honorarium,
allowance,
handout(s),
recompense,
compensation,
reimbursement,
reward,
income,
revenue,
profit(s),
proceeds,
takings,
gain,
lucre,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘pacify’): from Old French paie (noun), payer (verb), from Latin pacare ‘appease’, from pax, pac- ‘peace’. The notion of ‘payment’ arose from the sense of ‘pacifying’ a creditor.
pay
verb
• seal (the deck or seams of a wooden ship) with pitch or tar to prevent leakage.
• "an open groove between the planks had to be payed by running in hot pitch from a special ladle"
Origin:
early 17th century: from Old Northern French peier, from Latin picare, from pix, pic- ‘pitch’.
