pay
Noun
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is a type of: regular payment - a payment made at regular timessubtypes:
- combat pay - extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat
- double time - a doubled wage (for working overtime)
- found - food and lodging provided in addition to money
- half-pay - reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time
- living wage - a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
- merit pay - extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers)
- minimum wage - the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law
- pay envelope, pay packet - wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner
- sick pay - wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave
- strike pay - money paid to strikers from union funds
- take-home pay - what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc
Verb
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is a type of: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodysubtypes:
- subsidise, subsidize - secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces
- finance - obtain or provide money for
- contribute, put up - provide
- compensate, recompense, remunerate - make payment to; compensate
- overpay - pay too much
- underpay - pay too little
- prepay - pay for something before receiving it
- go dutch - share expenses equally and split the cost of something
- compensate, indemnify, recompense, repair - make amends for; pay compensation for
- tithe - pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church
- remit - send (money) in payment
- pay off, redeem - pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- drop, expend, spend - pay out
- bribe, buy, corrupt, grease one's palms - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- give back, refund, repay, return - pay back
- foot, pick - pay for something
- disburse, pay out - expend, as from a fund
- charge - pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- pay cash - pay (for something) with cash
- defray - bear the expenses of
- kick back - pay a kickback; make an illegal payment
- prefer - give preference to one creditor over another
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is a type of: communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelingssame as: give
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is a type of: pay - discharge or settle
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referred to in: investment, investment funds - money that is invested with an expectation of profit
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is a type of: settle - dispose of; make a financial settlement
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
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is a type of: make - perform or carry out
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is a type of: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate - put up with something or somebody unpleasantsubtypes: get one's lumps, take one's lumps - suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions
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is a type of: settle - dispose of; make a financial settlement
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