| 单词 | to pay its way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay its way (c) to pay its way: (of a business venture) to make a profit (or at least break even) rather than making a loss; to be financially viable. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > of a business undertaking to pay its way1799 1799 in R. Brown Gen. View Agric. W. Riding Yorks. xiii. 183 If it [sc. clover] is only of double value, the farm will be loosing one third part of what it should make to pay its way. 1848 L. M. Sargent Temperance Tales II. 287 All this ere philanthropy business must pay its own way..; folks are tolerably ready to come to the meetings, but they're awful afeard o' the cost on 'em. 1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Oct. 15/3 The pier has never come near paying its way. 1892 Law Times Rep. 67 139/1 It seems to me a most reasonable thing for a person applying for shares to look for a guarantee of interest until the concern can pay its own way. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 41/2 (caption) To enable it to pay its way, golf-minded steelworkers must put up $100 for initiation fee. 1989 I. Taylor George Eliot (1990) viii. 94 The magazine never paid its way..and it had to be kept afloat by regular injections of capital from sponsors. 2003 High Country News 20 Jan. 2/2 If the site is going to survive for the long haul, it needs to start paying its way. < as lemmas |
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