pay
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation,General American)enPR:pā,IPA(key):/peɪ/,[pʰeɪ]
Audio(General American): (file) - Rhymes:-eɪ
Etymology 1
[edit]FromMiddle Englishpayen,fromOld Frenchpaiier(“pay”),fromMedieval Latinpācāre(“to settle, satisfy”)fromLatinpācāre(“to pacify”).In this sense, displaced nativeOld Englishġield(“pay”)andġieldan(“to pay”),whenceModern Englishyield.
Verb
[edit]pay(third-person singular simple presentpays,present participlepaying,simple past and past participlepaidor(obsolete)payed)
- (transitive)Togivemoneyor other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- hepaidhim to clean the place up
- hepaidher off the books and in kind where possible
- 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter XVII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself andpaidthe rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
- 2012,BioWare,Mass Effect 3,Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→OCLC,PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
- Admiral Hackett: You canpaya soldier to fire a gun. You canpayhim to charge the enemy. But you can'tpayhim to believe.
- 2013June 21,Oliver Burkeman,“The tao of tech”,inThe Guardian Weekly,volume189,number 2, page48:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertiserspayfor clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
- (transitive,intransitive)To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- she offered topaythe bill
- he haspaidhis debt to society
- 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Psalms37:21:
- The wicked borroweth, andpayethnot again.
- 1594,William Shakespeare,Lucrece(First Quarto)[1],London:[…]Richard Field,for Iohn Harrison,[…],→OCLC:
- 2013June 22, “T time”,inThe Economist,volume407,number8841,page68:
- Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoidedpayingtax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
- (transitive)To be profitable for.
- It didn'tpayhim to keep the store open any more.
- (transitive)Togive(something else than money).
- topayattention
- c.1595–1596(date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies(First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene i]:
- notpayingme a welcome
- 1909,Archibald Marshall[pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, inThe Squire’s Daughter,New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company,published1919,→OCLC,page 9:
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore,paidtwo visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- (intransitive)To beprofitableor worth the effort.
- crime doesn’tpay
- it willpayto wait
- (intransitive)To discharge an obligation or debt.
- He was allowed to go as soon as hepaid.
- (intransitive)To suffer consequences.
- Hepaidfor his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
- (transitive)To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., wasfunny.
- 1996,Jon Byrell,Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers,Sydney: Ironbark, page294:
- Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'llpaythat all right.'
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | (to)pay | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-personsingular | pay | paid,payed† | |
2nd-personsingular | pay,payest† | paid,paidest†,paidst†,payed†,payedst† | |
3rd-personsingular | pays,payeth† | paid,payed† | |
plural | pay | ||
subjunctive | pay | paid,payed† | |
imperative | pay | — | |
participles | paying | paid,payed† |
Hypernyms
[edit]- (to give money):compensate
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- ability to pay
- borrow from Peter to pay Paul
- buy and pay for
- crime doesn't pay
- devil to pay
- hell to pay
- high-paying
- if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
- low-paying
- not pay any mind
- pay and display
- pay-and-display
- pay-as-you-eat
- pay-as-you-go
- pay attention
- pay a visit
- pay back in someone's own coin
- pay-by-wave
- pay dearly
- pay dirt
- pay dividends
- pay down
- payee
- payer
- pay for
- pay for itself
- pay for one's whistle
- pay for play
- pay heed
- pay homage to
- pay home
- pay it forward
- payment
- pay nature's debt
- pay no heed
- pay no mind
- pay off old scores
- pay one's addresses
- pay one's debt to society
- pay one's last respects
- pay one's own freight
- pay or play
- pay overs
- pay-per-click
- pay per play
- pay-per-view
- pay someone's way
- pay the debt of nature
- pay the fiddler
- pay the price
- pay the rent
- pay the ultimate price
- pay through the nose
- pay-to-play
- pay to play
- pay to stay
- pay-to-stay
- pay towards
- pay to win
- pay-to-win
- pay train
- pay with one's life
- pitch and pay
- play or pay
- press F to pay respects
- procure to pay
- purchase to pay
- rob Peter to pay Paul
- take or pay
- take-or-pay
- you get what you pay for
Descendants
[edit]Translations
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Noun
[edit]pay(countableanduncountable,pluralpays)
- Moneygiven in return forwork;salaryorwages.
- Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing theirpays.
- 1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill,chapter X, inThe Celebrity: An Episode,New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company;London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's seapayof an ensign in the navy.
Derived terms
[edit]- back pay
- base pay
- basic pay
- beyond one's pay grade
- combat pay
- danger pay
- dead-pay
- equal pay
- equal pay for equal work
- for-pay
- gay for pay
- gross pay
- half pay
- hand pay
- hazard pay
- holiday pay
- in the pay of
- isolation pay
- min pay
- net pay
- pay advice
- pay check
- pay cheque
- pay cut
- pay day
- pay freeze
- pay gap
- pay grade
- pay-neutral
- pay office
- pay packet
- pay phone
- pay pig
- pay piggy
- pay raise
- pay rise
- payrun
- payscale
- payslip
- pay spine
- pay stub
- pay table
- pay television
- pay toilet
- pay train
- paytriot
- pay TV
- say on pay
- separation pay
- severance pay
- sick pay
- take-home pay
Translations
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Adjective
[edit]pay(notcomparable)
- Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
- paytoilet
- Pertaining to or requiring payment.
- paytelevision
Translations
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]FromOld Frenchpeier,fromLatinpicare(“to cover with pitch”).
Verb
[edit]pay(third-person singular simple presentpays,present participlepaying,simple past and past participlepayedorpaid)
- (nautical,transitive)To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) withtarorpitch,or awaterproofcomposition oftallow,resin,etc.; tosmear.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pay”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- “pay”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
- “pay”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Anguthimri
[edit]Noun
[edit]pay
References
[edit]- Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri(1981), page 187
Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | пај | |
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Abjad | پای |
Etymology
[edit]According to Nişanyan, fromPersianپای(pây,“foot”),with the sense” share” originating from thePersianexpression borrowed intoOld Anatolian Turkishبای برابر(pây-berâber,“equally, to the same proportion”,literally“equal foot”).The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth centuryBook of Dede Korkut. The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such asKirgizandYakutпай(pay,“share”)are, according to Nişanyan, a borrowing from theOttoman Turkishپای,viaRussianпай(paj). However it is more possibly borrowed fromMiddle ChinesePhái(pʰaiH)as early as 7th century and inherited by later Turkic languages.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]pay(definite accusativepayı,pluralpaylar)
Declension
[edit]Declension ofpay | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | pay |
paylar | ||||||
definite accusative | payı |
payları | ||||||
dative | paya |
paylara | ||||||
locative | payda |
paylarda | ||||||
ablative | paydan |
paylardan | ||||||
definite genitive | payın |
payların |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan(2002–) “pay”,inNişanyan Sözlük
Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromEnglishpi,Ancient Greekπεῖ(peî).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation:pay
Noun
[edit]pay
- the name of the sixteenth letter of theClassicalandModern GreekAlpha bets and the seventeenth inOld Greek
- (mathematics)anirrationalandtranscendentalconstantrepresenting theratioof thecircumferenceof a Euclideancircleto itsdiameter;approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually writtenπ
Epigraphic Mayan
[edit]Verb
[edit]pay
- toguide
Ilocano
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]pay(Kur-itan spellingᜉᜌ᜔)
References
[edit]- Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) Byron W. Bender, editor,Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano[2](overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN,→LCCN
Jakaltek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromProto-Mayan*pahar.
Noun
[edit]pay
References
[edit]- Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955)Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano[3](in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano,page65; 39
Kalasha
[edit]Noun
[edit]pay
- Agoat
Komo
[edit]Noun
[edit]pay
References
[edit]- RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.
Limos Kalinga
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pay
Northern Kurdish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pay?
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Frompadre,fromLatinpatrem(“father”),fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]paym
- (hypocoristic,usuallychildish)papa,dad,father
- 1525-1526,Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional,João de Gaia,B 1433:Vosso pai na rua(facsimile)
- Vossopayna Rua / anta porta sua
- Yourdad[is] on the street / before his door
- 1525-1526,Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional,João de Gaia,B 1433:Vosso pai na rua(facsimile)
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]paym(pluralpays)
- Obsoletespelling ofpai.
- 1545,Garcia de Resende,Liuro das obras de Garcia de Reſẽnde que trata da vida[…]do christianiſſimo; muito alto ⁊ muyto poderoſo principe el Rey dõ João o ſegundo deſte nome,page 1:
- De ſeupay⁊ ſua mãy ⁊ ſeu nacimento.
- About hisfatherand his mother and his birth.
Quechua
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]pay
See also
[edit]Sierra Negra Nahuatl
[edit]Noun
[edit]pay
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]paym(pluralpays)
- (Colombia,Ecuador,Mexico,Panama,Peru)pie(food)
- (Panama,slang,by analogy from sense 1)A highly attractive person, typically, but not exclusively, referring to a female; abombshell.(Compare Englishsnack)
Derived terms
[edit]- pay de coco(“coconut cream pie”)
- pay de leche condensada(“condensed milk cake”)
- pay de queso(“cheesecake”)(Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala)
Tausug
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*pajay.
Noun
[edit]pāy
- rice(with husk)
Derived terms
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromOttoman Turkishپای(pay),ultimately fromMiddle ChinesePhái(pài,“to hand out, distribute”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pay(definite accusativepayı,pluralpaylar)
Declension
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Nominative | pay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | payı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | pay | paylar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | payı | payları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | paya | paylara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | payda | paylarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | paydan | paylardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | payın | payların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- pay etmek(“todistribute”)
- paylaşmak(“to divide among one-selves”)
- paylaşık(“shared”)
Descendants
[edit]- Armenian:փայ(pʻay)
References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan(2002–) “pay”,inNişanyan Sözlük
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