pay

See also: Pay and páy

pay - English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: , IPA: /peɪ/, [pʰeɪ]

Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)

  1. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
    • he paid him to clean the place up
    • he paid her off the books and in kind where possible
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
    • she offered to pay the bill
    • he has paid his debt to society
  3. (transitive) To be profitable for.
    • It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
  4. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
    • to pay attention
  5. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
    • crime doesn’t pay
    • it will pay to wait
  6. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
    • He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
  7. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
    • He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
  8. (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

Conjugation

infinitive (to) pay
present tense past tense
1st-person singular pay paid, payed
2nd-person singular pay, payest paid, paidest, paidst, payed, payedst
3rd-person singular pays, payeth paid, payed
plural pay
subjunctive pay paid, payed
imperative pay
participles paying paid, payed

Archaic or obsolete.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of pay (to give money)

Derived terms

Terms derived from pay (verb)
Terms related to pay (verb)

Descendants

Translations

  • Bulgarian: изплащам се (izplaštam se), изгоден съм (izgoden sǎm)
  • Finnish: kannattaa (fi)
  • Hungarian: kifizetődik (hu), megéri, rentábilis

Noun

pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)

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

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pay (not comparable)

  1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
    • pay toilet
  2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.

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Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed)

  1. (nautical, transitive) 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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Anagrams

pay - Anguthimri

Noun

pay

  1. (Mpakwithi) forehead
  2. (Mpakwithi) face

pay - Azerbaijani

Noun

pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)

  1. share
  2. portion

Declension

    Declension of pay
    Possessive forms of pay

Derived terms

  • paylamaq (to distribute)
  • paylaşmaq (to divide among one-selves)

pay - Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pay

Noun

pay

  1. the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
  2. (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π

pay - Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

pay

  1. to guide

pay - Jakaltek

Noun

pay

  1. skunk

pay - Kalasha

Noun

pay

  1. A goat

pay - Komo

Noun

pay

  1. moon

pay - Limos Kalinga

Adverb

pay

  1. too

pay - Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pɑːj/

Noun

pay ?

  1. share

pay - Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpaj/

Noun

pay m

  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Galician: pai
  • Portuguese: pai (see there for further descendants)

pay - Portuguese

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pai

pay - Quechua

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /paj/

Pronoun

pay

  1. he, she, it

pay - Sierra Negra Nahuatl

Noun

pay

  1. father

pay - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpai/ [ˈpai̯]
  • Syllabification: pay

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

  1. (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru) pie (food)

Derived terms

  • pay de coco (coconut cream pie)
  • pay de leche condensada (condensed milk cake)
  • pay de queso (cheesecake) (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala)

pay - Tausug

Noun

pāy

  1. rice (with husk)

Derived terms

  • mapāy

pay - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [paj]
  • Hyphenation: pay

Noun

pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)

  1. portion
  2. (arithmetic) numerator

Declension

Inflection
Nominative pay
Definite accusative payı

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Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: փայ (pʿay)
Meaning and Definition of pay
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