Word Finder - paying

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To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

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he paid her off the books and in kind where possible

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To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

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he has paid his debt to society

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To be profitable for.

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It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.

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To give (something else than money).

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to pay attention

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To be profitable or worth the effort.

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crime doesn’t pay

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To discharge an obligation or debt.

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He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.

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To suffer consequences.

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He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.

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To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

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I'll pay that.

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To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Payment

Whatever he's paying you, I'll double.

For about a year he studied at Leiden, paying special attention to philosophy and Greek.

The tension was paying its toll in another way.

Minerals have not been found in paying quantities.

Of the others, only Pete seemed to be paying any attention to their peril.

I think this place is beautiful, and apparently the ranch is paying for itself.

She would no longer be paying her own way.

Who was paying for this?

Alex wasn't paying a stranger to give him an heir.

Only if you're paying for it.

How much did Ingrid say I was paying you?

They're paying us for tranquility, not to witness your domestic problems, which should be handled in private, in a lawyer's office.

Though countless have paid for me, never has a man risked paying so dearly for my body; his honor, his reputation, his family and even his soul.

He instinctively ducked his head but the two were paying no heed to a passing biker as they sped south.

Gladys Turnbull remained Bird Song's sole paying guest, at least for a couple of days longer.

Shipton insisted on paying for the last two weeks even though he wasn't near the place.

I was concerned that you would insist on checking out too early, so I stopped by the office to see what arrangements could be made for paying your bill.

She sighed, wondering why she was paying attention to a dead-dead Immortal in the first place.

Parking wasn't a problem if you didn't mind paying the price of a good country dinner, but Dean didn't have time to hunt down a bargain so he reluctantly pulled into the closest lot.

She insisted on paying for her own coffee.

He has a quiet humor that goes unnoticed if you're not paying close attention.

I'll bet someone was really paying out the bucks.

He is paying the penalty for the loss of a hundred thousand innocent lives.

She hadn't been paying attention; did he sink into the darkness or disappear?

On the 18th of July 1542 it was surrendered to Henry VIII., and its possessions granted to Robert Dacres on condition of maintaining the grammar school and paying the master £10 a year, the same salary as the headmasters of Winchester and Eton, and maintaining the almshouse.

The Venetian ambassador Gradenigo estimated the paying number of offices on Leo's death at 2150, with a capital value of nearly 3,000,000 ducats and a yearly income of 328,000 ducats.

The coast is chiefly occupied by Arab tribes who were virtually independent, paying merely a nominal tribute to the shah's government until 1898.

But Sulla in Greece and Fimbria in Asia defeated his armies in several battles; the Greek cities were disgusted by his severity, and in 84 he concluded peace, abandoning all his conquests, surrendering his fleet and paying a fine of 2000 talents.

Shipping has been fostered by paying bounties for vessels constructed in France and sailing under the French flag, and by reserving the coasting trade, traffic between France and Algeria, &c., to French vessels.

On the formation of the Wirth ministry in May 1921 he was appointed Minister of Reconstruction, and in that capacity negotiated with the French minister, Loucheur, a convention for supplying German materials for the restoration of the devastated area in France, and thus paying in kind part of the reparation which the German Reich had undertaken to pay in gold.

It is the duty of a debtor to pay a debt without waiting for any demand, and, unless there is a place fixed on either by custom or agreement, he must seek out his creditor for the purpose of paying him unless he is "beyond the seas."

On arriving at a certain height the lift ceases and the jenny is released, and by the continued pull of the rope, it runs up the jib; on arriving at an adjustable stop, the jenny is again locked, and the load can be lowered out; the hook can then be raised, when the jenny is automatically unlocked, and on paying out the rope the jenny gravitates to its first position, when the load is lowered and the cycle repeated.

One of the earliest monuments records the purchase by a king of a large estate for his son, paying a fair market price and adding a handsome honorarium to the many owners in costly garments, plate, and precious articles of furniture.

Waste land was let to reclaim, the tenant being rent-free for three years and paying a stipulated rent in the fourth year.

The end is taken into the testing room in the cable-house and the conductor connected with the testing instruments, and, should the electrical tests continue satisfactory, the ship is put on the proper course and steams slowly ahead, paying out the cable over her stern.

The length paid out and the rate of paying out are obtained approximately from the number of turns made by the drum P and its rate of turning.

The speed of the ship can be roughly estimated from the speed of the engines; it is more accurately obtained by one or other of the various forms of log, or it may be measured by paying out continuously a steel wire over a measuring wheel.

The average speed is obtained very accurately from solar and stellar observations for the position of the ship. The difference between the speed of the ship and the rate of paying out gives the amount of.

But the mere paying out of sufficient slack is not a guarantee that the cable will always lie closely along the bottom or be free from spans.

The gap between the two ends has now to be closed by splicing on new cable and paying out until the buoyed end is reached, which is then hove up and brought on board.

The shore end was landed in Valentia Harbour on the 5th of August, and next morning paying out was started by the " Niagara," to which the laying of the first half had been entrusted.

The manufacture of the cable, begun early in the following year, was finished in June, and before the end of July it was stowed partly in the American ship " Niagara " and partly in decided to begin paying out in mid-ocean, the two vessels, after splicing together the ends of the cable they had on board, sailing away from each other in opposite directions.

It had paid the Post Office in royalties already £1,848,000, and the Post Office under the agreement would step into the business in 1911 by merely paying for the plant employed.

Vines and olives are usually planted, the landlord paying the taxes and receiving one-third of the produce.

The suffrage is extended to all citizens over twenty-one years of age who can read and write and have either attained a certain standard of elementary education or are qualified by paying a rent which varies from 6 in communes of 2500 inhabitants to 16 in communes of 15p,ooo inhabitants, or, if peasant farmers, I6s.

It established that all Italian cabinets since 1880 had grossly neglected the state banks; that the two preceding cabinets had been aware of the irregularities committed by Tanlongo; that Tanlongo had heavily subsidized the press, paying as much as 20,000 for that purpose in 1888 alone; that a number of deputies, including several ex-ministers, had received from him loans of a considerable amount, which they had apparently made no effort to refund; that Giolitti had deceived the Chamber with regard to the state banks, and was open tosuspicion of having,after the arrest of Tanlongo, abstracted a number of documents from the latters papers before placing the remainder in the hands of the judicial authorities.

In 1678, on the rupture of relations between Charles and Louis, a splendid opportunity was afforded Louis of paying off old scores by disclosing Danby's participation in the king's demands for French gold.

Dio Cassius and Capitolinus charge Faustina with the most shameless infidelity to her husband, who is even blamed for not paying heed to her crimes.

In 1752 this was altered to the 1st of January, but the 25th of March remains one of the Quarter Days; though in some parts old Lady Day, on the 6th of April, is still the date for rent paying.

In practice the gradient should not exceed i in 221, and even that is too steep, since theoretical conditions cannot always be realized; a wet rail will reduce the adhesion, and the gradients must be such that some paying load can be hauled in all weathers.