pay1 verbpay2 noun
paypay1 /peɪ/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tense and past participle paid /peɪd/) 
WORD ORIGINpay1
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French paier, from Latin pacere ‘to make calm or peaceful’, from pax; ➔ PEACEVERB TABLE
pay
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | pay |
| he, she, it | pays | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | paid |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have paid |
| he, she, it | has paid | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had paid |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pay |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have paid |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am paying |
| he, she, it | is paying | |
| you, we, they | are paying | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was paying |
| you, we, they | were paying | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been paying |
| he, she, it | has been paying | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been paying |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be paying |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been paying |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Pay by credit card at least ten days before departure.
- Although both of them worked hard, they couldn't make the business pay.
- Bartending can pay pretty well.
- Did she pay you for taking care of her kids?
- Have you paid for the tickets?
- Have you paid the rent yet?
- I like your new car - how much did you pay for it?
- I need £4.50 to pay the window cleaner.
- If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay.
- If you pay someone to work in your house, you have to pay Social Security taxes on the wages.
- If you earn below $6000, you pay no income tax.
- Jobs in areas that use mathematical skills, such as computer programming, tend to pay well.
- Miller refused to testify and paid for it by being labelled a communist.
- My company paid for me to go to evening classes.
- Of course you have to pay more if you want to travel in the summer.
- Our fixed rate savings account currently pays 6.5% interest.
- Please pay at the desk.
- Several fans tried to get in without paying.
- She paid $5,000 for three nights in a hotel in New York City.
- She drank far too much at the party and paid dearly for it the next day.
- Because the insurance company was paying the defendant's costs, the contest would be unequal.
- Bribes were paid to railroad officials, of course, but other towns paid bigger ones.
- Budgeting loans are paid back by weekly deductions from benefit.
- He always paid the banks, and he paid all other incontestable bills on time.
- It showed revenue of A $ 641. 1 million and paid dividends of 32 cents a share in the year.
- She says she wouldn't pay it.
- She sent money to pay for my education.
- So if a premium is paid before 6 April 1993, it may be treated as having been paid during 1990/91.
THESAURUS
to give someone money for something you are buying from them, or a service they are providing: · I paid a lot of money for that computer.· You have to pay to park your car.
to pay for something for someone else, or to provide the money needed to do something: · We will meet the cost of your travelling expenses.· The cost will be met from public donations.
to pay for something for someone else, especially when you do not want to, or do not think that you should: · As usual, the taxpayer will have to foot the bill.
informal to pay for something: · My company will pick up the tab for all moving costs.
informal to pay a lot of money for something because you have to and not because you want to: · He had to fork out £500 to get his car fixed.· Fans are having to shell out roughly $65 per seat for football games.
to pay the bill after eating a meal, staying in a hotel etc: · She went down to the hotel lobby to settle the bill.
especially spoken to pay a particular amount of money for something – used especially when saying how much you are willing to pay: · How much will you give me for the car?· I’ll give you $50 for the lot (=for everything).
spoken used when saying that someone else will pay for your meal, drinks etc: · Order whatever you like – this is on me!· The drinks are on the house (=the bar, restaurant etc will let you have them for free).· Put your money away – the drinks are on us.
Longman Language Activatorto pay for something to give money in exchange for goods or services: · Several fans tried to get in without paying.· Please pay at the desk.· I need £4.50 to pay the window cleaner.pay for: · Have you paid for the tickets?pay £20/$40 etc for something: · She paid $5,000 for three nights in a hotel in New York City.pay a bill/rent/tax etc: · Tom paid his bill at the cashier's desk.· There was no point in paying rent on an empty apartment for two months.pay cash (=pay using coins, notes etc): · They don't have health insurance, so they have to pay cash for doctor's visits.pay by cheque/credit card etc: · Pay by credit card at least ten days before departure.
if a company or organization meets the cost of something, it pays for it for someone else, especially when they do not have a legal duty to do this: · We will meet the cost of any expenses you may incur when travelling to your interview.meet the cost of of doing something: · A local firm has agreed to meet the cost of sending ten lucky prize-winners on a dream holiday.
to pay for something for someone else, especially when you do not want to or do not think that you should: · It will be, as usual, the taxpayer who will be footing the bill.foot the bill for: · The program asks businesses to foot the bill for daily newspapers in the classroom.
informal to pay a lot of money for something because you have to and not because you want to, especially for something you need: · The policy affects how much we will have to shell out at the petrol station.fork out £100/$10,000/a lot of money etc: · He had to fork out £500 to get his car fixed.· Fans are having to shell out roughly $65 per seat for football games.fork out £100/$20,000/a lot of money etc on somebody/something: · From the time you enroll them in nursery school, you're forking out a fortune on the kids.fork out/shell out for: · $13 seems like a lot of money to shell out for a bottle of wine.
informal to pay money for something, especially money that you owe or that someone has persuaded you to pay: · You owe me twenty pounds. Come on, cough up!cough up £3/$100/a few pence etc: · You have to cough up $2 just to get into the park.
British informal to pay for something, usually when someone else thinks you should: · His dad wouldn't stump up for a new bike.stump up £50/$200/a lot of money etc: · Everybody in the office stumped up a few pounds for his leaving present.
to pay for someone else's food, drink, ticket etc to pay for someone else, for example for their meal, drink, or ticket: · If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay.pay for: · When we got to the ferry, Eddie took out a five-dollar bill and paid for Terry and me.· Who paid for your driving lessons?pay for somebody to do something: · My company paid for me to go to evening classes.
to buy something such as a meal or theatre ticket for someone, because you like them or want to celebrate something: · As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.treat somebody to something: · We treated Sally to lunch at the Savoy.
to pay for something, especially when it is not necessarily your responsibility or duty to do this: · We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.pick up the tab for: · Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.
spoken say the drinks are on me , this meal's on me etc when you are telling someone you will pay for their drinks, their meal etc: · Order whatever you like -- this is on me!· Put your money away -- the drinks are on us.
to buy drinks for the people you are with in a bar: · Joe bought a round of drinks for everyone.
British spoken say this when it is your turn to buy the drinks for the people you are with in a bar: · No, it's my shout. What are you drinking?
to have enough money to pay for something if you can afford something, you have enough money to pay for it: · I'd love to visit Australia, but I just can't afford it.· I had to move because I couldn't afford the rent any more.can afford to do something: · How can you afford to eat in restaurants all the time?· He's finally earning more, so he can afford to have a holiday this year.
to have enough money to pay for something such as a tax or a bill: · They say they will have all the money on Friday, but I don't think they'll be able to pay.· Some people just aren't able to pay the tax.be able to pay for: · Many people use credit as a way of buying goods they are not able to pay for.
to pay someone to do something to pay someone for work: · How much do they pay you?pay somebody for (doing) something: · They still haven't paid her for the work she did last year.· Did she pay you for taking care of her kids?be/get paid: · We get paid at the end of every month.pay somebody £100/$200 etc: · Ziedler was ready to pay her $2000 a week.pay somebody to do something: · If you pay someone to work in your house, you have to pay Social Security taxes on the wages.pay well/badly: · Jobs in areas that use mathematical skills, such as computer programming, tend to pay well.
to pay a waiter, taxi driver etc a little extra money: · Did you tip the waiter?· It's usual to tip about 15% in restaurants.
informal if you tell someone you will make it worth their while , you mean you will give them money if they agree to do something for you, especially something dishonest or not convenient: · I didn't want to lend Terry my car, but he said he'd make it worth my while.· The basketball federation in Kuwait offered him a coaching job, and made it worth his while.
to give someone money to stop them from causing trouble or doing something that they have threatened to do: buy somebody off/buy off somebody: · Do you really think the cops can't be bought off?buy somebody off with something: · The management has been trying to buy off union activists with substantial pay offers.
to pay someone to do something dishonest or illegal to give money to someone in an official position, in order to persuade them to do something that they should not do: · Santo was convicted of bribing tax inspectors in Italy.bribe somebody to do something: · He bribed a guard to smuggle a note out of the prison.bribe somebody into doing something: · Judges are bribed or threatened into making decisions favorable to drug traffickers.
a large amount of money paid to someone in a high position in a company or government, for arranging a business deal for you: · Top executives received millions of dollars in kickbacks.· He offered me $20,000 as a kickback if I'd push through a $500,000 loan.
British informal a small amount of money paid to someone to persuade them to do something that is dishonest but usually not very serious: · He denies accepting backhanders, though he admits being offered them.· George gave the bouncer a bung, and we got into the nightclub.
to pay back money that you owe someone to give someone back money that you have borrowed from them: pay somebody back: · I'll pay you back tomorrow.pay back something: · How are you going to pay back all that money?· He's paid back about half of what he owes us.pay back a loan/debt etc: · After graduation, the student must begin to pay back the loan.
to pay a large amount of money that you owe, especially to a bank: · The loan has to be repaid within two years.· There were doubts about the country's ability to repay the debt.· My parents lent me the money to buy a car, and I repaid them over the next year.
to finish paying back an amount of money that you have borrowed: pay off a debt/loan/mortgage etc: · The mortgage will be paid off over twenty-five years.· He paid off the loan six months early.pay a debt/loan/mortgage etc off: · The country hopes to pay all its debts off within twenty years.
to pay money that you owe, especially when you do not want to or when you are late paying it: · If they don't pay up we will take legal action.· The company paid up eventually, but only after repeated threats and reminders.
: settle an account/bill/loan etc to pay money that you owe someone - used especially in business contexts: · Please settle this account within two weeks.· I settled the bill and left the restaurant.
to finally pay all the money that you owe, after some time or with some difficulty: · This cheque should clear my overdraft.· We're hoping that we can clear all our debts by the end of the year.
to give back to someone the money that they paid for something, especially because they are not satisfied with what they bought or there is something wrong with it: · We'll give you a refund if you're not entirely satisfied.· It's the wrong size. Do you think they'll give me my money back?
formal to pay money to someone for something that they have had to pay for or have lost because of you: · Pay for the hotel room when you leave, and the company will reimburse you later.· He wouldn't let me reimburse him for the cost of his journey.· We pay for any repairs that need doing to the house, and are reimbursed by the landlord.
an amount of money that is paid back to you, especially because you have paid too much in taxes, rent etc. In American English a tax rebate is called a tax refund: · The Ford Citibank credit card offers a 5 percent rebate on the purchase of a new Ford car or truck.tax/rent rebate British: · We were delighted to hear that we were entitled to a tax rebate of over £1000.
to pay for something before you receive it to pay for something before you receive it: · Customs fees are paid in advance as part of your airline ticket.· Don't pay cash in advance for any service.
if you pay for something up front , you pay or partly pay for it before you receive it, especially in order to show the person you are paying that they can trust you: · I paid the builders £100 up front and will give them the rest when the job's finished.· We've had so many unpaid bills that we've started to demand payment up front.
to pay part of the cost of something expensive, especially a home or car, and agree to pay the rest at a later time: · We saved enough money to make a down payment on a house.· He borrowed money from his family to put a down payment on a truck.
to pay part of the cost of something before you buy it, especially so that no one else can buy it instead of you: · We've put a deposit on a round-the-world tour.· The Center has helped several poor families pay the deposit on a better apartment.
to pay money towards the cost of something so that you can be sure it will be sold to you: · I've put £200 down on a new bedroom carpet.· Greg's parents are going to give us some money to put down on a car.
American to pay part of the money for something you buy at a store, such as a piece of clothing or a gift, so that the store keeps it for you until you can pay the rest: · I'd like to put this sweater on layaway, please.
to buy something and pay for it later to buy something and pay for it later, usually by making small regular payments: · Most people have to make major purchases on credit.· In 2001, 56% of new cars were bought on credit.
to receive goods or services, especially in small shops or places where you know the owner, and agree to pay for them at a later time: · Can I put it on the slate, and I'll pay at the end of the week?
to pay money to someone because they have suffered an injury, loss, damage etc · People are entitled to be compensated fully whenever they are injured by others' carelessness.compensate for · No amount of money can compensate for my father's death.compensate somebody for something · The workers have still not been compensated for their loss of wages.
money that a law court orders someone to pay to you because they have caused you harm: pay somebody damages: · Survivors of the air crash were paid $10000 each in damages.award somebody damages (=agree that damages should be paid): · Damages of £2500 were awarded by the court.
money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm, loss, or damage to your property: · The government cannot take private property for public use without compensation.pay somebody compensation: · His employers paid him $5000 compensation for his broken leg.compensation for: · See if you can get some compensation from the airline for your lost baggage.
to provide money for someone else to live on to provide money for your family to live on: · When she was unemployed it was very difficult to provide for her children.· A life insurance policy enables you to provide for your family after your death.well provided for: · He left his family well-provided for.
to provide enough money for someone to pay for all the things they need, especially if you do this by working: · He has a wife and two children to support.· A lot of people can barely earn enough to support themselves, let alone their families.· My parents didn't have to support me when I was at college because I received a grant.
British to pay a regular amount of money to the person you used to be married to, especially to support children of yours that you no longer live with: · Maintenance will be paid until the child reaches 18 or leaves full-time education.
to pay a regular amount of money to help support children of yours that you no longer live with: · He had been paying child support for his two children since 1985.
to pay a regular amount of money to the person you used to be married to: · The judge ordered McFadden to pay alimony of $2,400 a month.
to provide money to help someone do something also subsidise British if a government or other organization subsidizes something, it pays part of the cost: · Many companies subsidize meals for their workers.· a government-subsidized health service· The city council subsidizes the local orchestra.
if a company sponsors something such as sports event, a theatre, or an art show, it provides some of the money that is needed, often as a form of advertising: · The new league will be sponsored by Pepsi Cola.· The bank is sponsoring an art exhibition.
to provide all the money needed to pay for something, especially an important or expensive plan: · Both schools and industry will be involved in funding the new training projects.· a charity funded by private donations· The state should fund the arts for the benefit of us all.
informal to provide the money for something such as a business or a plan: · The competition is being bankrolled by a New York businessman and computer enthusiast.· Ed Bass, a millionaire from Texas, bankrolled the Biosphere project.
to provide the money needed for something and agree to take responsibility and pay any debts if it fails: · The British government has agreed to underwrite the project with a grant of £5 million.· The venture was underwritten by several companies.
to provide some of the money needed to start or continue in business, hoping that you will get more money back if the business is successful: · Small investors and large companies have both put money into the exhibition.· He put all his money into a dotcom company that later failed.
to provide the money needed to pay for something, especially by doing something to earn or collect that money: · The government uses money from taxes to finance higher education.· She gave swimming lessons to finance her stay in Australia.· It's a great show, but he can't find anyone to back it.· The bank is eager to back business ideas by local people.
to provide a lot of money over a period of time to pay for something, especially something that will later be unsuccessful: · Many biotech companies are not yet profitable, as they continue to pour money into research and trials.
to provide a lot of money for something, especially government money - use this when you do not think that this is the best way of solving a problem or improving a situation: · The way to solve the education crisis is not necessarily to throw money at it.· The Republicans see him as a liberal whose only solution to the nation's problems was to throw money at them.
an amount of money that is paid an amount of money that you pay for something, especially when it is only one part of the total amount you have to pay: · Your first payment is due on July 16th.mortgage/car/credit card etc payment: · The family spends about $1,800 a month on their mortgage payments.make a payment: · He makes monthly payments into his ex-wife's bank account.payment of: · They have a monthly car payment of £220.
British /installment American a regular payment you make to pay back money that you have borrowed or to pay for things that you have already received: · To avoid penalties, pay the installments by the December 10 and April 10 dates.instalment of £250/$1000 etc: · I borrowed $2000, which was to be paid back in monthly installments of $250.in instalments: · You can pay me in instalments if you can't afford to give me all the money back in one go.
part of the cost of something that you pay before you get it, so that it will not be sold to anyone else and so that the seller is certain that you will buy it: · Most stores ask for a small deposit if they are to keep goods for you.$20/£5 etc deposit: · Yes, we have plenty of rooms available, but you'll have to pay a $20 deposit.deposit/down payment on: · She's paid the deposit on a new bed.leave a deposit: · Would you mind leaving a deposit? You can collect the picture when it's ready next week.
the first amount of money that you pay for something expensive, which you will continue to pay for over a long period of time: · For a 40 percent down payment on a new car, the company will arrange a no-interest loan.make a down payment on something: · We almost have enough to make a down payment on the house.
a small amount of money that you give someone such as a waiter or taxi-driver in addition to the ordinary payment: · The boy carried my suitcases up to my room and then stood waiting for a tip.· A 15% tip is considered usual if the service was good.leave a tip: · We finished our lunch and left a tip on the table for the waiter.
money that you have to pay as a punishment · I got a fine for parking on a double yellow line.heavy fine · There are heavy fines for drink-driving. You might even go to prison.£30/$100 fine · He got a $75 fine for speeding.library fine/parking fine etc · If you're going into town, will you go and pay my library fines for me please?
to make someone pay money as a punishment: fine somebody for something: · Stores will be fined for selling cigarettes or tobacco to minors.fine somebody £5/$100 etc: · The company was fined $1.6 million for breaking environmental regulations.be/get fined: · You will be fined for any lost library books.
a piece of paper that shows how much you must pay a piece of paper that tells you how much you must pay for services you have received or for work that has been done for you: · Can I have the bill, please?telephone/gas/electricity etc bill: · We've just had a huge telephone bill.pay a bill: · They left the hotel without paying the bill.a bill for £50/$100 etc: · The garage sent me a bill for £400.the bill comes to (=the amount on the bill adds up to): · The bill for the meal came to $75, including wine.
American a piece of paper that tells you how much you must pay in a restaurant: · A waiter came over and handed me the check.pay the check: · Let me pay the check.
informal a bill that is added up at the end of a period of time, showing how much you owe for drinks, food etc: · The bride's father paid the tab for the party.put something on the tab: · He ordered dinner and asked for it to be put on his tab.run up a tab: · In just two days, she'd run up a bar tab of $175.
a bill given to you by a company or organization, which tells you how much you owe them for goods, services or work that they have provided: · You will find the invoice attached to the box.· They sent him an invoice at the end of the month.invoice for £250/$300 etc: · We have received an invoice for $250.
to tell someone in writing how much they should pay you to send someone a document showing how much money they must pay you, for goods or services they have received: · Some lawyers bill clients up to $300 an hour.bill somebody for something: · One lobbyist billed the environmental group $20,000 for nine-months' work.
if a company or organization invoices you, they send you a bill showing how much you have to pay for goods and services they have provided: · You will be invoiced as soon as the work is completed.invoice somebody for something: · The company invoiced us for the cost of using their conference hall.
when you are paid or not paid for doing an activity or sport a professional sports player, musician, actor etc gets paid for playing, acting etc, and they do it as their job: · Professional basketball players can earn millions of dollars.
an amateur sports player, musician, actor etc does not get paid for playing, acting etc , but they do it for enjoyment: · A group of amateur actors performed 'Romeo and Juliet'.· an amateur photographer
British /volunteer American voluntary or volunteer work is done by people who do it because they believe it is useful, and do not expect to be paid: · When she retired, she did a lot of voluntary work for the Red Cross.
not paid : unpaid worker/volunteer etc: · Perry stayed on with the Agency as an unpaid adviser.unpaid work/service/overtime etc: · Employees were often required to work unpaid overtime.unpaid leave/holiday/vacation: · The company allows its employees to take unpaid leave for various reasons.
to listen and watch carefully to listen to and watch carefully what you are doing, what is happening, or what someone is saying: · Judith never pays attention in class.pay attention to: · The TV was on, but Jamal wasn't really paying attention to it.pay somebody/something attention: · I often find myself nodding and smiling at my children without really paying them much attention.pay close/careful attention: · Lawyers around the country were paying close attention to the trial.
to think very carefully about something that you are doing, without being interrupted: · I tried to read a few pages, but I found it hard to concentrate.concentrate on: · There were so many people talking that I couldn't concentrate on the music.· Sherman sat hunched forward and staring through the windshield, trying to concentrate on the traffic.
your ability to think carefully about what you are doing without being interrupted: · His face was solemn with concentration.concentration on: · Plummer said she plans to continue her concentration on the 3,000 meter race.
to continue to pay attention to something especially when you are very excited or worried about something else: · Just keep your mind on the driving -- I'll figure out where we are.· Bill couldn't keep his mind on anything but the verdict.
to keep watching something carefully, so that you do not make any mistakes: · We had to keep our eyes on the sandy path to avoid the roots and rocks in the way. · Keep your eyes on the ball -- now swing!
to pay attention to and think about something, often allowing it to affect a decision - used especially in writing: · There is a lot of criticism of the new law and a number of politicians are beginning to take notice.take notice/note of: · No one took notice of me until I pulled out my notebook and started writing.· The organization began to take note of its public image.sit up and take note/notice: · As usual, Greenspan's announcement made the financial world sit up and take notice.
someone who is attentive pays careful attention to someone that they are listening to, watching or looking after: · Hecke's new work has something of interest for both the casual and attentive viewer.attentive to: · The crew were extremely attentive to the passengers' safety.
the amount of time that you are able to carefully listen or watch something that is happening without getting tired or bored: have a short/limited attention span: · Kids of his age typically have a very short attention span.
to pay particular attention to a subject or person · The government never pays any attention to pre-school education.pay special/particular attention to something · The investigators at the crash site are paying particular attention to the weather data.pay more attention to something · Previously the company payed much more attention to its investors than it did to its customers.not pay enough attention to something · Not enough attention is paid to the role of diet in illnesses such as cancer and heart disease.
to spend your time considering a particular subject, group etc, especially because you think it is more important than others: · Concentrate on the content of your report. You can worry about its format or appearance when you've finished writing.· The conference will focus on the issue of population control.
to begin to pay attention to someone or something different or new - used especially in written and formal contexts: · Amelia next turned her attention to finding herself a place to live.· Having dealt with the problem of energy sources, let's now turn our attention to the question of nuclear power.
to give all your attention to something or someone and not do anything else at the same time: · I worry about how Quincy's going to do in school - he can't sit still long enough to give anything his undivided attention.give your undivided attention to something: · Once I had finished my exams, I could give my undivided attention to looking for a job.
to try to do something correctly and not make mistakes to do a piece of work carefully because you want it to be right, and you do not want to make mistakes: · Look at all these typing errors! Can't you take more care?take care with: · Sally doesn't take nearly enough care with her accounts.take care to do something: · Take care to label all the disks with the correct file names.
to be careful that a particular thing is done in the right way: · You need to pay more attention to your grammar if you want to get a better grade.· Trainees are taught to pay attention to details and to strive for perfection.
to make a special effort to do something carefully and well: · Take pains to present a smart, efficient appearance, and to show that you are keen to progress in the company.· He had taken great pains to make the setting attractive: green candles stood waiting to be lit and in the centre was a bowl of white miniature roses.
not earning much money low-paid workers do not earn much money for their work. Low-paid work is work that people do not get paid much money for: · a low-paid mechaniclow-paid job: · The jobs centre seems to list only low-paid temporary jobs.
if someone is badly paid, they do not earn much money for their work - use this when you think someone should earn much more money: · A lot of people think that nurses are badly-paid.
informal to be paid very little money: · Jobs are so hard to find that people are willing to work for peanuts.
if work or a job does not pay well , the people who do it do not receive much money, especially considering the amount of work they have to do, the amount of knowledge they need to have etc: · It used to be accepted that teaching didn't pay very well, but things have changed a lot.
British /slave labor American if you say that what someone is paid is slave labour , you mean that they are paid very little money even though they have to work extremely hard, and this is unfair: · £50 a week? That's slave labour!· Working for them is slave labor - they only pay five bucks an hour.
words for describing a job that you earn a lot from · There are not enough women in well-paid, responsible jobs.
if work or a job pays well , the workers are paid a lot of money for doing it: · Boring jobs often pay well.· Modelling usually pays very well but the work is not very regular.
work or a particular type of business that is lucrative earns a lot of money for the people who do it: · Transferred from Barcelona to Naples, Maradona signed a highly lucrative three-year contract.· An increase in consumer demand has made sports shoe retailing a lucrative business.
when several people give some of the total money needed to give some of the money that is needed to pay for something: contribute to: · I'd like to thank all of you who contributed to the hospital appeal.contribute something to/towards something: · My parents said they would contribute something towards the cost of my driving lessons.
to give an amount of money that when added to money given by other people, can be used to pay for something useful: · If we all make a contribution, we'll be able to get him something really nice.make a contribution to/towards: · Several local businesses have made contributions towards our new school bus.
to collect money from each of the people in a group, especially in order to buy something for someone: · They had a collection at the bar and they raised over $80.have a collection for: · We're having a collection for Jane's birthday present.
informal if everyone in a group chips in an amount of money, they each give an amount so that they can pay for something together: · We all chipped in to pay for the food and wine.· When Mona retired, all her co-workers chipped in and bought her a lovely dinner service. chip in with: · Electronics firm Compol chipped in with over $20,000.
British /give toward something American to give part of the money needed to pay for something: pay/give something towards something: · I don't mind paying something towards Samantha's wedding present.· She feels it's partly her fault the TV's broken, so she's ready to pay $50 toward a new one.pay/give towards something: · Although students receive government grants, parents are still expected to pay towards living costs.
British informal if a group of people have a whip-round , everyone in the group immediately gives some money in order to buy something with the total amount that is collected: · It's Sally's birthday tomorrow. We'd better have a whip-round so we can get her a present.
to no longer have something important to no longer have something important or valuable, such as your job or your home, because it has been destroyed or taken away from you: · I'll lose my job if the factory closes.· We lost our home and all our belongings in the fire.lose your sight/hearing etc (=lose the ability to see/hear etc): · Professor Wilkes lost his sight in an accident three years ago.
if a mistake, accident etc costs you something important such as your job or your health, you lose that important thing because of it: cost somebody something: · Another mistake like that could cost you your job.· All this delay has cost the company an important contract.cost somebody his/her life: · Larry's years of hard drinking and living almost cost him his life.
if you achieve something at the cost of something else, you lose something of great importance or value as a result of what you achieve: · An increase in profits was achieved, but only at the cost of hundreds of jobs.
if something is a high price to pay , losing or damaging it is so bad that the advantage you gain as a result is not worth it: be a high price to pay for: · The pollution of our rivers is a high price to pay for agricultural development· Most people know now that getting sunburnt is a high price to pay for a quick tan.be too high a price to pay (for): · The new road has made life easier for commuters, but some say it is too high a price to pay.
to not pay attention to what someone says or does to deliberately pay no attention to what someone does or says, and pretend it is not important or does not affect you: · She ignored my question and continued her story.· Someone made a rude noise, which the teacher decided to ignore.· My father's always telling me what to do, but I usually just ignore him.ignore somebody's advice/warning: · It was very stupid of you to ignore your mother's advice.· Ignoring my warnings, he dived straight into the shallow water.
to ignore someone or something, especially by not watching or listening to them: · "What's this injection for?'' he asked the nurse. She paid no attention, rolling up his sleeve in silence.· People living near the crash scene paid no attention when they heard the aircraft's engine cut out in mid-air. pay no attention/not pay any attention to: · More than half the people questioned said they did not pay any attention to political broadcasts.
not to let someone affect what you do or the way you feel: · Stan has fired me before. I usually take no notice and turn up for work again the next day.take no notice/not take any notice of: · Take no notice of him. He's just being silly.· He never took any notice of the baby, even when it screamed.
to ignore someone's advice when they talk to you: · You never listen to me. You just do whatever you want.· It's because you didn't listen to Roger that you are in this trouble now.not listen to reason (=not listen to sensible advice): · We all warned Susan not to marry that man, but she wouldn't listen to reason.
if your request or suggestion falls on deaf ears , it is ignored by the people who have the power to deal with it: · The workers' demand for a wage increase has fallen on deaf ears.· As rioting continued, Mayor Warren appealed for calm, but his words fell on deaf ears.
informal to not be willing to listen to people's problems, complaints, bad news etc because you do not want to be worried by them: · You'd think the government would be concerned about people sleeping rough, but they just don't want to know.not want to know about: · If you're going to start an argument with Alex, I don't want to know about it.
especially American to deliberately not listen to what someone is saying, especially because it is unpleasant or you have heard it before: tune out something: · He had learned to tune out the kids' constant questions.tune something out: · There was a warning voice in the back of her mind, but she tuned it out.
to listen to someone or something to pay attention to what someone is saying or to a sound that you hear: · I didn't hear the answer, because I wasn't listening when she read it out.· If you listened in class you might get better grades.listen to: · He listened carefully to every word I said.· I could listen to Placido Domingo all day -- he has such a beautiful voice!listen hard (=try hard to hear something that is very quiet): · If you listen hard, you can hear the sound of the sea in the distance.listen carefully: · The company has begun to listen more carefully to its customers, in a determined attempt to improve customer service.listen intently (=listen very carefully to hear what someone is saying): · Mrs Singh leaned forward, listening intently as they explained the procedure to her.
to listen carefully to what someone is saying: · I have some important information about travel arrangements, so please pay attention.· Billy's a smart kid, but he doesn't pay attention in class.pay attention to: · She went on talking, but I wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying.· According to the survey, two-thirds of young people do not follow politics and pay no attention to election campaigns.
to listen carefully for a sound that you are expecting to hear, although you do not know when it will happen: · We hid behind the door, listening for the sound of the guard's footsteps.· The flight had been delayed, and so I waited in the departure lounge listening for announcements.· She lay in bed, listening out for the sound of his feet on the stairs.
to listen to all of what someone wants to tell you without interrupting them, especially when you disagree with them or do not believe them: · Hear me out first, Jane, and then you can say what you think. · Knapp heard him out patiently but still refused to change his mind.
to praise someone or something to say that you admire someone or approve of something good that they have done: · Fire chiefs praised a 10-year-old girl who saved her brother's life yesterday.praise somebody for something: · Local people were praised for their calm response to the crisis.highly praised: · His column was a regular and highly praised feature of the newspaper.
to tell someone that you are pleased or impressed because they have achieved something special: · I would like to congratulate all the prizewinners.congratulate somebody on (doing) something: · The President congratulated him on winning the title.· I wrote a letter congratulating him on his appointment.congratulate somebody for (doing) something: · The committee is to be congratulated for presenting its findings in such an informative manner.
to tell someone that you like the way they look or that you are pleased with something that they have done: · She blushed when men complimented her.compliment somebody on something: · Everyone complimented me on my new hairstyle.
to say good or approving things about a person or their achievements: · Peter is always very complimentary about your work.· She was actually highly complimentary about you.
if you say good things about someone, you praise their abilities, usually in their work: · People are saying really good things about you -- that you are well-trained, are thorough, conscientious...
to praise someone or their work because you admire them: · I'm so pleased to meet you -- my wife has always spoken very highly of you.· All her former clients speak highly of her legal skills.
to praise someone publicly, especially to show respect for them and what they have achieved: · John Motum, presenting the trophy, paid tribute to the players and coaches.· Friends of the actor paid tribute to his talent and expressed shock as news of his death became public.
if someone puts in a good word for you with someone in a position of authority, they praise you to them, especially in order to help you to get a job or to avoid punishment: · The producers told me later that I got the job because Paul put in a good word for me.put in a good word for somebody with somebody: · Can you put in a good word for me with your colleagues on the council?
to punish someone to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something wrong, for example by putting them in prison, or making them do something that they do not want to do: · She was suspended while the school decided how to punish her.punish somebody for (doing) something: · His parents punished him for disobedience.· The U.S. threatened to take away trading privileges as a way to punish the country for human rights violations.· Two instructors were punished for harassing female students.
to make someone pay money as a punishment: · Inspectors have the power to fine any passenger travelling without a ticket.be fined £10/$100 etc: · She was fined $300 for reckless driving.fine somebody for (doing) something: · One player was fined for fighting during the game.· The state fined the company for safety violations.
to send someone to prison for a particular period of time: · Because of the serious nature of the crime, the judge gave him 20 years.give sb 6 years/10 months etc for: · After a long trial she was given a life sentence for the bombings.
if a judge sentences a criminal, he or she gives them an official punishment, usually sending them to prison for a period of time: sentence somebody for something: · Brown will be sentenced for a series of sexual assaults.sentence somebody to 20 years/life imprisonment etc: · The judge sentenced Margolis to a year in prison.sentence somebody to 20 years/life imprisonment etc for something: · Some countries will sentence you to seven or more years in prison for drug offences.sentence somebody to death: · 60 prisoners have been sentenced to death in political trials.
to punish someone because you want to make sure that they will not behave badly again: · I hope a night in the cells has taught you a lesson.· He was treating me badly, so I left - I just wanted to teach him a lesson.
informal to do something unpleasant to someone as a way of punishing them for something bad they have done to you or someone you know: · If I ever find out who did this, I'll make them pay!make sb pay for: · I wanted to make my father pay for his betrayal.· The prosecution asked jurors to make Mr. Sanderson pay for what he did.
also penalise British to officially punish someone, especially by taking away their right to do something or by limiting their freedom in some way: · New laws will penalize firms that continue to pollute the environment.· It is unfair that the whole class should be penalized because of the bad behaviour of a few students.penalize somebody for (doing) something: · A referee may penalise players for wasting time.· The House of Representatives voted to penalize him for ethics violations.
to punish someone who has broken the rules of an organization that they belong to or work for: · Officers are expected to discipline soldiers who do not keep their uniforms in good condition.be disciplined: · Anyone who is regularly late for work is likely to be disciplined or dismissed.· Even when Morton and Collins started fighting on the field, neither player was disciplined.
intended as a punishment: punitive action/measure/sanctions etc: · Government forces immediately took punitive action against the rebels.· The sanctions were a punitive measure used to try to force South Africa to reject apartheid.punitive damages (=money that a person or company has to pay to someone they have harmed - used in legal contexts): · The company was ordered to pay punitive damages in a sex discrimination case.
: disciplinary action/measures/charges etc actions etc that are intended to punish someone for breaking a rule or law or to force them to obey rules: · The committee members promised that appropriate disciplinary measures would be taken against the offenders.· So far, not a single person has faced prosecution or disciplinary action over the case.
to be punished to be punished for something bad that you have done: · If you commit a crime you must expect to be punished.be punished for: · Ellen was punished for being rude to her teacher.be severely punished: · Anyone who disobeyed his orders was severely punished.
to suffer for having done something wrong, especially for breaking the law: · I've spent the last three years in jail. I tell you, I've paid for what I did.pay dearly for something (=be severely punished for something): · People who sell drugs to our children should pay dearly for it.
informal to be punished or held responsible for something bad, especially for something you did not do: · Until the cause of the accident was proven, the company made it clear that it was not willing to take the rap.take the rap for (doing) something: · The defense argued that Green was set up to take the rap for the murder of Roy Robinson.· I prefer driving; I don't want to take the rap for getting lost.
informal to be ready to accept punishment for something you have done: · Rather than face the music at a trial, Abingdon chose to plea bargain.
to use money to buy things to use money to buy things: · Everyone spends more at Christmas - it's an important time for business.· During the recession, even the tourists weren't spending.spend £5/$10/a dollar etc: · I bought two skirts and a T-shirt and I only spent $50.spend on: · We spend about £85 a week on food.· The government has promised to spend more money on education.· She spends most of her salary on clothes.spend money on doing something: · They spend quite a lot of money each week on eating out.
to spend £5, $10 etc on something because that is what it costs: · Of course you have to pay more if you want to travel in the summer.· What quality accommodation you get depends on how much you're prepared to pay.pay for: · I like your new car - how much did you pay for it?pay £5/$10/a dollar etc for: · They paid over $100 each for tickets.· The set meal costs £15 but you have to pay extra for wine.
to spend more money on something than you want to spend or more than you think is fair: · £65! I don't want to pay out that much!pay out for: · You have to pay out so much money for car repairs these days.pay out on: · The idea of paying out half my salary on rent didn't sound too good.pay out £5/$10 etc: · Did you know that Eddy paid out nearly £2000 for his new computer?
informal to pay a particular amount of money for something, especially when you are buying it from another person, so that the price is not fixed: · "I don't really want to spend that much." "OK, how much are you prepared to give?"give for: · Did they give you the asking price for the house?give (somebody) £5/$10 etc: · He said he'd give £40 for the painting, so I said yes.
to start spending an amount of money that you have saved or that you were keeping for a particular purpose before you really wanted to: · We had to break into our savings to pay the hospital fees.· I really want to avoid having to break into the money I was saving for college.
spoken use this to talk about something you paid a reasonable price for, so you expect it to be of good quality or used properly so that your money has not been wasted: · I paid good money for that tennis racquet and it broke the first time I used it.· What's the point of paying good money for a wedding dress when I'm only going to wear it once?
when something has the result that you want it to have if something that you plan to do or try to do succeeds , you get the result that you hoped for: · Both sides could make these talks succeed by seeking a real and lasting peace.· As long as the financial crisis continues, economic reform cannot possibly succeed.succeed in doing something: · None of the measures taken by the government have succeeded in reducing the spread of violent crime.
if something that you plan to do or try to do is successful you get the result that you hoped for: · If the treatment is successful, she could be back at school next month.· a small but successful program to boost the number of African-Americans getting into collegehighly successful (=very successful): · It was a highly successful campaign.the most successful: · This has been Baltimore's most successful art show ever.so successful (. . . that): · The case of Thailand illustrates why family planning programs have been so successful in many countries. prove successful (=be successful): · The scheme was started in January 2000, and has proved largely successful.
if a plan or method works , it produces the result that you want: · "I can't open this jar." "Try putting it under hot water. That sometimes works."· I think your treatment worked Arnie, my headache's gone.· The recipe works just as well if you cook the fish in a microwave.
if something goes well , such as a meeting, party, or performance, everything happens in the way you wanted and there are no problems: · Ray met my parents for the first time this weekend, and it went really well.· The audition was OK, but it could have gone better I suppose.· Most people seem to think the party went well.go well for: · Good luck with the project, and I hope everything goes well for you.
if a plan, method etc has some success , it is fairly successful: · The early warning system has had some success; for example Pacific coast residents get four hours notice of a potential earthquake.· Only in the late 1990s did efforts to reduce sectarian violence have some success.
if something comes out right or turns out right , it succeeds in the end when it had seemed as though it would fail: · People enjoy romantic fiction because it offers a reassurance that things will always come out right.· Just when it looks as though everything will turn out right, tragedy strikes and Jenny dies of a fatal illness.come out right in the end: · She's scared she'll fail her exams, but I think everything'll come out right in the end.
if something that you arrange such as a party or trip comes off , it happens successfully even though there are problems in arranging it: · We had hoped to organize a trip to the theatre tonight, but it didn't come off.· Good try Tim. Shame it didn't quite come off.
if hard work, effort, a risk etc pays off , it has a successful result at a later time: · I think if you show a bit more consideration for other road users, you'll find it pays off.· We put a lot of hard work into local initiatives, and that's really starting to pay off now.
if a plan, idea, or action bears fruit , it has the successful result that it was intended to have, especially after a long period of time: · The campaign for debt relief will not bear fruit for another two or three years. · I hope you feel your involvement has been worthwhile and has borne fruit.
a meeting, discussion etc that is fruitful is successful, useful, and produces good results: · So far, the investigation has not been very fruitful.· This was one of the most fruitful debates of the conference.· If the talks prove fruitful, the working groups will start bargaining in May.
to suffer because of bad things you have done or mistakes you have made · If you tell lies, it is you who will suffer in the end.make somebody suffer · When his mother caught him cheating she really made him suffer.suffer for · All over the world, people are suffering for their political or religious beliefs.· I shouldn't have drunk all that wine - I'll suffer for it tomorrow morning.
to have a bad experience as a way of being punished for something bad that you have done, mistakes you have made etc: pay for: · Miller refused to testify and paid for it by being labelled a communist.make somebody pay: · They think I've forgotten what they did to me, but I'll make them pay.pay dearly: · She drank far too much at the party and paid dearly for it the next day.pay the price/the penalty: · Tony didn't do any studying all year but paid the price when it came to the exams.
British to suffer or start having problems as a result of mistakes or decisions you made at an earlier time: · The school overspent on its budget last year, and now it's having to count the cost.count the cost of: · We are now counting the cost of our earlier mistakes.
if a mistake costs someone dearly or costs someone dear , they suffer a great deal because of it: · This scandal could cost the government dearly.· It was only a small mistake, but it cost us very dear.
if you know or find out something to your cost , you realize that something that happened or something you did at an earlier time is now causing problems or is likely to cause problems in the future: · As we now know to our cost, the disease is highly contagious.· Many people have found out to their cost that insurance policies do not always cover damage from flooding.
if you do something at a cost to someone or something, that person suffers because you do it: · She's struggled to keep the family going on her own -- at considerable cost to herself.· Ms Gideon has defended her cause at great cost to her personal and political reputation.
to visit a place as a tourist · Every year thousands of tourists visit Turkey.· We spent the day visiting temples and other historic buildings.
to visit a place, especially because you are near it: · We were near Edinburgh, so we decided to pay a visit.pay a visit to: · We paid a quick visit to New York before flying home.
also go see American spoken to visit a well-known place or building while you are in a city or country: · If you're in Paris, you must go to see the Pompidou Centre.· Let's go and see the cathedral.· Why don't we go see the Statue of Liberty?
to visit a city or country and look at the famous and interesting places there: · I wanted to look round Moscow and see the sights.see the sights of: · We're going on a bus tour today, to see the sights of Copenhagen.
the activity of visiting and travelling around a place to look at the famous and interesting places there: · After an afternoon's sightseeing we were all exhausted.· We spent the days sightseeing and the evenings sitting in cosy bars drinking the local wine.go sightseeing: · Why don't we go sightseeing tomorrow?
spoken to visit a particular famous place while you are on holiday: · I think we ought to do St Paul's while we're in London.· We did the Eiffel Tower yesterday.
to visit a person to go and spend time with someone, especially in their home: · I visit my grandparents at least once a month.· Paul visited her every day when she was in hospital.· We won't be that far away - you'll be able to come and visit.
spoken to visit someone: · I'm going to see my brother and his family tomorrow.· Better go and see your father tonight.· Why don't you go and see your mother?go see American spoken: · You really should go see Mattie some time.
to visit someone at their house, especially if they live close to you: · I saw your Mum today, and I promised that we'd go round later.go over/go around/go round to: · Let's get a bottle of wine and go over to Simon's place.
if someone comes over or comes round , they visit you at your house, especially if they live close to you: · I'll come over at about 7 o'clock,· Why don't you come round later and we'll discuss it over dinner?
to visit someone, especially for a particular reason: pay a visit to somebody: · Your hand looks very swollen, I think you should pay a visit to the doctor.pay somebody a visit: · Isn't it time you paid your mother a visit?
to visit someone that you have not seen for a long time, while you are spending some time in the area where they live: look somebody up: · I'll give you my address so you can look me up whenever you're in London.look up somebody: · I looked up a few old friends while I was in Birmingham.
if a lot of people, especially members of your family, descend on you, all of them suddenly visit you at the same time: · Sorry for just descending on you like this, Pam -- we had nowhere else to stay.· The following week all my family descended upon me.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 1phrases
Colleges and universities have found that it pays to advertise (=advertising brings good results). The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining. Ordinary people are paying dearly for the mistakes of this administration. Robert failed to pay his dues last year. I earn extra for working on Sunday. She was ordered to pay £150 in parking fines, plus court costs. The debt must be paid in full. a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week The film pays homage to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’. They’re letting me pay for the washing machine by monthly instalments. families existing on very low incomes They made obeisance to the sultan. The hotel workers get paid peanuts. The musicians earn a pittance. Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for organically grown vegetables. The government refused to pay the ransom. The government agreed to pay reparations to victims. It must have cost him a small fortune. I’d like to pay tribute to (=praise and admire publicly) the party workers for all their hard work.
· I only paid ten pounds for it.
· You have to pay in cash for the tickets.
· I filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.
· The hotel does not charge more if you pay by credit card.
· American exporters want to be paid in dollars.
adverbs (=pay a lot of money)· Customers are willing to pay handsomely for anti-ageing cosmetic products.
Meaning 3phrases· The cleaners are paid £5 an hour.
· I was working on a building site, being paid by the hour.
adverbs· Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.
· Teachers here are well-paid.
· a highly-paid football player
· For a long time I didn’t realise how badly-paid and overworked I was.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Colleges and universities have found that it pays to advertise (=advertising brings good results).· He read the final page, paying particular attention to the last paragraph.
The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining.· Most people pay their bills on time.
· It was claimed that the company paid bribes to win the contract.
· Is it all right if I pay by card?
· They won’t take credit cards, so you have to pay cash.
· There will be a small charge to pay.
· You can pay by cheque or credit card.
(=pay a cheque into your bank account)· I went to the bank to pay in a couple of cheques.
(=one that you get for doing your job)· My pay cheque arrived at the end of each week.
· Passengers will be paid compensation if their baggage is lost or damaged.
· He was always paying her compliments.
· I’m not sure how I’m going to pay the cost of going to college.
· Millions of workers face pay cuts.
(=one that involves an agreement about how much people will be paid)· They are currently negotiating a new pay deal.
Ordinary people are paying dearly for the mistakes of this administration. (=pay the money back)· The first thing I'm going to do is pay off my debts.
· Car hire firms may ask you to pay a deposit in advance.
(=about how much money employees are paid)· The pay dispute involved 450 staff.
Robert failed to pay his dues last year. (=a job for which you receive money)· 51% of women return to paid employment within 5 years of having a child.
(=with a stamp/a stamp and an address already on it)· A copy of the rules can be obtained by sending a stamped-addressed envelope to the above address.
· The workers’ demands include equal pay for equal work.
· They agreed to pay my travel expenses and initial accommodation costs.
I earn extra for working on Sunday.· You have to pay a small fee to rent a locker.
She was ordered to pay £150 in parking fines, plus court costs. (=pay a lot of money)· We had to pay a fortune in rent.
The debt must be paid in full. (=succeeds)· She gave up a career in law to become an actor, but the gamble has paid off.
a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week The film pays homage to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’. (=pay or charge someone according to the number of hours it takes to do something)· You can pay by the hour to hire a boat.
· Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
They’re letting me pay for the washing machine by monthly instalments.· His insurance paid for the damage to the car.
· She took three days unpaid leave in order to help her daughter.
(=give back the money you borrowed, usually over a period of time)· You can repay the loan early without a penalty.
families existing on very low incomes (=money that the government or employers give to a woman after she has had a baby)
· Has he paid the money he owes you?
· If I lose my job, we won't be able to pay the mortgage.
(=finish paying all the money you owe)· They paid off their mortgage five years early.
They made obeisance to the sultan.· Many teachers do a lot of unpaid overtime.
· The salary figure does not include overtime pay.· If Joe worked 100 hours overtime at time and a half, his overtime payments would be $15,662.
The hotel workers get paid peanuts. (=pay money regularly so that you will have a pension later)· They have been unable to pay into a pension.
The musicians earn a pittance. (=pays you money when you claim it)· I thought my insurance policy would pay out.
Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for organically grown vegetables.· I paid a very reasonable price for my guitar.
(=suffer)· We paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season.
(=something is worth suffering in order to achieve something more important)· Changing his job would be a small price to pay to keep his marriage intact.
The government refused to pay the ransom.· They believe that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax.
· He spent his redundancy money on a plot of land.
· The architect who designed the building paid too little regard to its function.
· She couldn’t afford to pay the rent.
The government agreed to pay reparations to victims.· Large companies often pay better salaries.
· As a senior teacher, she has reached the top of her pay scale.
(=money paid to an employee who is too ill to work)· Only full-time employees got sick pay.
It must have cost him a small fortune.· We pay a monthly subscription for the sports channel.
· Many people feel they are paying too much tax.
I’d like to pay tribute to (=praise and admire publicly) the party workers for all their hard work. (=visit someone)· Perhaps she'll come up to town then and pay me a visit.
· The king made an official visit to Poland last year.
· Some firms still paid lower wages to female workers.
· She hasn’t done any paid work since she had children.
· As part-time, low-paid workers, many women earned very little.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Except Medicare, which pays the full amount.· Another way to measure an individual's capacity to pay tax is the amount of capital assets he or she may have.· It is particularly useful for paying fixed amounts such as club subscriptions and insurance premiums.· Sun is paying an undisclosed amount towards the cost of the project, thereby fulfilling some of its operating obligations down under.· Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery.· A depositor was to be paid three-quarters of the amount of his deposit, but limited to a maximum deposit of £10,000.· The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin.
· They certainly pay close attention to one another's progress, frequently glancing from side to side to check on each other's position.· Until you start paying attention, that is.· Anyone wishing to tackle crime rates must pay enormous attention to youth crime because of its sheer scale.· Or is he in his thalamus, since it helps determine what he pays attention to?· He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him.· No one was paying any attention to this except for Gao Ma.· Traditionally, literary criticism has paid little attention to questions of precise historical contextualisation.· Children need to know that their parents are not always thinking about and paying attention to them.
· Now they have to spend their mornings planning budgets and their afternoons paying bills.· She remembered the stress on her parents, trying to pay bills for themselves and five kids.· Being her uncle would account for him paying her bills!· Did she suspect I had no money to pay the bill?· It's aim is to simplify vendors' programmes, so that a customer has to pay only one bill.· I suppose I began my first little businesses because my parents needed me to help pay the bills.· He died penniless, with over £17,000 owing to him, on 27 December 1650, unable to pay his doctor's bill.· We had to make our budgets and pay our bills.
· And he sometimes paid them in cash, to speed things up.· It also shows why most aggressive, self-confident executives would rather be paid in stock than cash.· With the bank's business-start loans, firms pay back the cash not with interest but with a royalty on sales.· Manufacturers, through brokers, pay incentives, either cash or products, to stock particular foods or to promote them.· If you can not pay cash for these extras, they will have to be added to your loan.· That will be paid off by using cash flow, or replacing it with medium or long-term bonds.· ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC roundback or similar, reasonable condition, will pay cash.· Group members offer session discounts to patients who pay cash.
· In addition, companies pay taxes on any profits they eventually make, as well as dish out dividends to shareholders.· The company said it paid with about $ 25 million in cash and $ 159 million in mortgage financing.· If an insurance company were having to pay out, they would want a lot more information than we are being offered.· When the company paid up, it did not even flinch.· The two companies paid $ 1 billion for Madison Square Garden two years ago.· It will normally be beneficial for a company to pay a dividend just before its year end.· They usually employ many part-time staff since this reduces the amount of National Insurance contributions the company has to pay.
· This has made Britain happy, since it has not had to pay out compensation to white farmers.· You pay tax on the compensation, but the corporation saves an offsetting amount of tax by deducting the compensation payment.· In addition, the CanadianInvestor Protection Fund can pay compensation to savers and investors in some circumstances.· At first, the store declined to pay compensation.· Instead of paying that compensation, the person concerned served an extra week in prison.· A park keeper was ordered to pay £800 compensation to the owner of a £1,000 model yacht he sank.· The problem emerged yesterday in the board's report for 1988/9 when it paid record compensation of £69.4 million to 27,752 victims.· Wilkins was fined a further £75 for the assault charge and ordered to pay the officer £20 compensation.
· If you don't qualify for a voucher you will have to pay the full cost of the glasses yourself.· Despite lawsuits some police departments remained indifferent, because the city, and not individual officers, had to pay the costs.· While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches, three others were less willing to do so.· But nobody wanted to pay the cost.· Judge Simon Goldstein fined her £20,000, ordered her to pay Pounds 4,691 costs and do 240 hours community service.· He paid the cost of sending hundreds of library workers' childen to summer camp.· We do not pay the cost of meals at the temporary accommodation. 2.· Otherwise, polluters identified with specific sites had to pay the entire cost of those sites' cleanup themselves.
· Plus we will pay your costs of returning the product.· It was held that the refusal was unreasonable because the employers had agreed to pay the extra travelling costs.· The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action, which had been due for trial in January.· The government was ordered to pay costs of £100,000 to each newspaper.· Particular attention will be paid to costs of production in Troyes, commercial policy and the quality of business leadership.· The contractor is paid for the actual costs he incurs plus a previously agreed lump sum for his overheads and profit.· Mr Uddin was fined £420 for each offence and ordered to pay £75 costs.· They were each given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £35 costs.
· He always paid by credit card and he always kept the receipts for his accountant.· You pay by credit card at least 10 days before departure.· There seems no reason why they should have to pay extra for credit, to get a benefit they would judge unnecessary.· Some resorts also offer promotional discounts if you pay with one specific credit card or another.· And as long as you pay by credit card, you have the peace of mind of being covered against fraud.· Customers can pay by credit card or with their monthly phone bill starting next month.
· On many occasions I asked Alf if he had taken the money to pay the debt but he never did!· Xerox is expected to use the cash to pay down debt from the insurance unit.· The family were not rich; much of their land had been sold to pay the debts of successive wastrel sons.· Private placements can cover the costs of everything from paying off old debt to paying for a new factory.· The £2,000 he did receive was used to pay off debts and to buy drugs, he said.· He gets two years to pay the debt, including liens, or could face losing the ranch.· Eight countries that have received debt relief are still paying more on their debts than on health and education.· If her father did not pay his debts immediately, he said, he would evict father and daughter.
· The society pays no dividends, so after-tax profits can be retained as capital.· These companies have very high demands for equity capital to finance their growth and generally pay no dividends or very low dividends.· In the near term, it does not intend to pay any dividends, instead ploughing all profits back.· Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.· Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies, which continued to pay dividends.· At marginal mines, small improvements could pay big dividends.· It is this time which pays dividends.· Making tough choices now will pay dividends in the far-off days of summer.
· Out-of-staters pay millions of tax dollars to local governments.· Salomon Brothers paid the ten-thousand-dollar bill racked up by the wife of its mailroom clerk with three months' tenure.· My suits come from Savile Row-when you're getting suits there, you know you're paying top dollar.· Marshall remembers how his father used to resist paying even five dollars weekly for child support.· With only half the contents missing, it has paid me ten dollars more.· Seven years later, consumers find themselves paying top dollar once again.· One pays top dollar and one gets really good people.· Make the call to be sure you are not paying a dollar to save a dime.
· He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick.· The council also agreed to pay moving expenses and provide six months severance pay should they later fire him.· He says it's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses, so it's nice.· We made arrangements to give several talks as a way of paying some of our expenses.· These councillors were not paid for their services and paid their own expenses.· The action frees Allstate from paying expenses and eliminates traditional benefits such as pensions and health insurance for the agents.· We will also pay any expenses you have our written permission to claim.· They ignore the minor expense of health care for pregnant women, but pay the massive expenses of premature babies.
· We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy.· By dealing in dollars you avoid paying high exchange fees or going home with a wad of pesos.· Feeling the pinch ... the parents who won't pay their private school fees.· Solution: We set up a station on the ground floor so drivers can pay their fees before getting in their cars.· Salt River sued the state in November and will have to pay huge legal fees, Gates said.· As another extra, Lovell will pay legal fees and survey costs up to £1,500.· Hoffman-La Roche will pay an undisclosed signing fee and product royalties.
· Twenty people were being held on December 31, 1999, local sources said, for not paying the fines.· He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.· In addition, the couple must pay fines and costs totalling £875.· She was ordered to pay £15 in library fines, £31.90 compensation and £25 costs.· He go on and pay his fifty-dollar fine for preaching without a permit and go on back out here.· Are those who have to pay fines deterred in future?· Each agreed to write a letter of apology and pay a $ 500 fine.
· The account pays interest at 4.5% gross over the headline retail price index.· Most bonds pay interest semiannually at a rate equal to one-half of the annual coupon rate.· Indeed, banks usually pay no interest on current account deposits.· How about paying 20 percent interest on a second mortgage?· The DfEE pays the interest on the loan while you are studying or retraining.· Individuals would not pay taxes on interest or investment income, and businesses could not deduct the cost of fringe benefits.· However, at current high interest rates, many employees can not afford to pay the interest on expensive bridging loans.· The trust paid a rate of interest to its owners.
· Again, separate life cover is required to pay off your loan in any eventuality.· Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.· And he will maintain the three-year moratorium on the interest that farmers pay on loans.· The company, however, may have a gain because the long-term cost of paying back the loan is lower.· You can pay off the loan early, at any time, without any penalty.· Services include making sure payments are collected and insurance and taxes are paid on loans that are packaged and resold to investors.· Last week the deadline for finding eight thousand pounds to pay back a loan from a mortgage company expired.· They could drink a beer, buy typing paper or pay off a loan.
· He is not paid £20 million a year to come second.· Bruno will be paid $ 6 million.· Halifax is offering to pay £500 million for Equitable's asset management business, sales force and systems.· Reimer agreed to pay $ 46 million in the civil lawsuit.· But who is going to pay the $ 36 million promised to Executive Outcomes for its first three months of service?· The president also would require tobacco companies to pay a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking.· The company agreed to pay nearly $ 1 million to cover costs, penalties and staff sensitivity-training courses.· Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
· The girl told the magistrates she stole to get money to pay for cigarettes.· Neither Sutton nor Samons would say how much money Reynolds paid.· Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me.· Bank pressures already have forced them to sell off 30 prized purebred heifers to raise money to pay back debt.· As mentioned earlier, the Convocation Library appeal raises money to pay for a number of journals in the library.· One Southern deejay remembers asking a New York label for money to help pay off his insurance.· The administrators are alleging that the company's money was misappropriated and paid away for no benefit to the company.· But Francine ended up back with her natural parents in a dispute over how much money was to be paid.
· You are a suitable candidate for remortgaging if you are one of the many millions who pay the standard variable mortgage rate.· She no longer talked of needing funds to support herself or to pay off the mortgage on a ranch somewhere in Texas.· Under an informal family arrangement they paid the mortgage instalments falling due under the local authority mortgage.· Mortgage savings Homeowners could save the money they pay for unnecessary private mortgage insurance under legislation passed by the Senate Banking Committee.· The Harrises were given two weeks to pay off mortgage arrears of £8,000.· It is also possible to obtain cover to pay off the mortgage on the diagnosis of certain critical illnesses.· He always goes to work, pays his mortgage and supports his family and his habit.
· But account-holders are limited to five withdrawals from the account each year without giving notice or paying a penalty.· We can return home early without paying a penalty, he reports.· But, be prepared to pay the penalty if you're sloppy and get it wrong!· Gingrich has not decided whether to pay the financial penalty from personal or campaign funds, Maddox said.· Keep within the limit and you will not pay the penalties that come with unauthorised overdrafts.· Therefore his son must pay the penalty.· When Model returned with his wife and children, Constable Bedford asked them if they wished to pay the fixed penalty immediately.· Now it was his men that were paying the penalty.
· Surprisingly, the government has managed to sell this idea to employers, who pay half of the pension contributions.· But Envirodyne did not want to have to pay the pensions either.· And they have a long-term interest in maintaining industry's prosperity, for that is what pays their pensions.· Nobody would be paying the pensions.· Moscow is at least paying pensions to those elderly people who are registered.· Increase the amount all workers pay into their pension fund by one 0. 5 percent.· The Government's option 2 - taking the fund and paying index-linked pensions itself has been dropped.· What spouse's pension will be paid?
· On 10 May you open a 2-month market deposit paying 8.75 percent with 5,000,000.· How about paying 20 percent interest on a second mortgage?· In the first year of the plan, the government will pay 30 percent of their monthly payments.· Nowadays, you lose a job, and the next job pays 20 percent or 30 percent less.· On one hand, the Chancellor increased the number of people paying the reduced 20 percent rate of income tax.· Rhode Island adopted at statute under which the state paid a 15 percent annual supplement to teachers in nonpublic elementary schools.· You can pay up to 15 percent of your earnings altogether as contributions and still get tax relief.
· Even if you have been paying premiums for many years, you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value.· The difference is that he would pay the total premium costs to Medicare and leave out Medigap.· Kuapa Kokoo pays a premium price plus a handling fee for these beans, which then pass to the Cocoa Marketing Company.· States would get money to pay the insurance premiums.· We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium.· In other words, they are willing to pay a premium for a chance to own shares.· The claims of the careless, or merely unlucky, are paid for out of the premiums of the careful, or lucky.· Investors who paid a premium for their securities also get hurt because consumers repay the debts at 100 cents on the dollar.
· Any of the above is a high price to pay to exercise our right to unforgiveness. 4 Forgiveness is a decision.· Tax is the price we pay for a civilised society.· The price to pay for a chance to celebrate the sport.· Methodological orthodoxy seems to be the price many feminist psychologists pay to be considered psychologists.· Is this the price that we must pay for democratic and inclusive education?· This means farmers receive the real price from the market and there has been a price to pay in New Zealand.· They'd been lucky, both of them, but the price they had to pay in memories was harsh.
· The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default.· Bear Stearns paid taxes at a rate of 41 percent, up from 38 percent a year ago.· There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate, but been too cowardly to refuse.· Two-and three-year maturities were more active and traders were eager to pay fixed rates.· So, by the time tax is calculated and paid, rates could be considerably lower than they might be next week.· Under that, they pay the double-occupancy rate, and let the line try to match them with a roommate.· Why should those living alone or elderly couples be paying as high rates as large wage-earning families?· Traders say the bond will likely pay investors a coupon rate of 1. 3 percent or 1. 4 percent.
· We will not be paying these higher rents.· And they buy food and clothes and pay rent.· I pay all the bills and my father has never paid any rent.· He pays the rent by tending bar and working for a couple of unlicensed moving companies.· His trips usually involve an overnight stay, and he pays the company rent for this occasional occupation.· He makes barely enough money delivering handbills to businesses and homes to pay his rent and buy food and beer.· Either she pays her rent or she can buy a property and pay £500 a month mortgage.· Leaseholders generally paid part of their rent in kind, so that in many ways renting and sharecropping tenures were similar.
· After he died, people started arriving to pay their respects, and cards and flowers came flooding through the door.· No one had gone up to the casket itself to pay their respects.· He shows no surprise that Fairfax has come to pay his respects after nearly fifty years.· People have come by the thousands to pay respects.· I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie.· As if playing their roles from an identical script, the men bowed and paid perfunctory respects in phrases punctuated with honorifics.· He paused to pay his respects but the official was busy with his heap of files.· Enough young men came to pay their respects, Burun was aware.
· I'd forgotten that I pay you a salary!· The three owners last year paid themselves salaries of $ 25, 000, not including undisclosed year-end bonuses.· Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary, only the chief headmen received official remuneration.· Thus the taxpayers who pay their salaries have to pay their taxes as well.· And anyway, he pays their salaries.· But if your business pays generous salaries to its other employees, your salary will look more reasonable.· The thing to remember is that the client pays your salary and that makes you primarily responsible for the relationship.· The government would collect $ 390 million from the industry in fiscal 1998 to pay the salaries and benefits of inspectors.
· Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at an annual salary of £63,047.· Under most HMOs, specialists are still paid per service provided.· Society pays noisy lip service to monogamy but, in reality, encourages affairs.· The state promised to match the counties dollar for dollar to pay for services including medication, psychotherapy and residential care.· According to this, Mr Collingridge has never paid for the literature service, this month or any month.· I begged her, telling her I would pay her for her services.· Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.· MDExpert president Rachel Pomerantz said some insurance companies cover second opinions, though many would not pay for the services MDExpert offers.
· Forest townships were compelled to pay the warden large sums of money if they did not attend Forest inquests at his summons.· If it is less than £1.05 a week, it will be paid as a lump sum once a year.· Each of the six members of the management committee was ordered to pay the sum of £861.· Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it.· It is also possible to pay a lump sum premium to an insurance company which will pay out to the amount insured.· But that much money will not be paid in one lump sum.· They would happily pay out princely sums for completely new garments made from superior imported cloths.· Clubs will pay sums of four figures as secret bonuses or salary top-ups to their star players.
· Abolish the present inheritance tax and make recipients pay on gifts above a certain band as income.· These taxes are paid by both employers and employees.· He never shared the extreme supply-siders' faith that tax cuts would pay for themselves by stimulating faster growth.· Individual workers similarly disappear into the underground economy where social charges and taxes are not paid.· If taxes are needed to pay for government spending, why do we need government spending in the first place?· A marginal tax rate is the tax paid on additional or incremental income.· So, by the time tax is calculated and paid, rates could be considerably lower than they might be next week.· But the Internal Revenue Service wants the properties for taxes not paid.
· I pay tribute to the work of the churches in my borough and other inner-London boroughs on this issue.· I pay tribute to the Home Office for the way in which it dealt with immigrants who came to Northern Ireland.· Here, some of Derek's follow drivers pay tribute to his skills.· As colleagues lined up to pay tribute, speculation had already begun about who the party conference would pick as new leader.· This year's Revival paid tribute to Jim, so they were very keen to have the Porsche along.· Fenner Brockway paid tribute to the understanding and respect for individual conscience shown by the state.
· In the spring of 1785 Leopold Mozart paid his son a visit lasting 10 weeks.· Her brother paid a visit at her convent one day.· President Bill Clinton paid a two-day visit to Northern Ireland with little expectation of achieving a breakthrough in the beleaguered political process.· No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.· Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.· When we met, Carol was paying a fleeting visit to Paris.· But as the fire began to smoulder, Gore's sister Catherine paid an unexpected visit to her parents cottage.
· It is not just a question of paying competitive wages.· The lender releases money to the borrower, who then uses the money to pay wages and other expenses of the harvest.· Added value pays wages and provides profits.· They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.· Do they pay fair wages to all employees?· Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage?· By contrast disabled people and our organisations have called for staff to be paid proper wages.· No one determines if the company is actually paying the prevailing wage.
VERB· The Village Association has agreed to pay the fees for two staff members to sit the mini-bus test.· Even if the taxpayers agreed to pay the bill, could the economy afford it?· Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000.· A group of individuals bid for the Games and agreed to pay all the costs.· Officials kept ministers in the dark and broke rules by agreeing to pay developers and consultants in advance.· He agreed to pay a $ 375, 000 fine and make restitution to his victims totaling $ 625, 000.· Entrepreneurs immediately became staunch patriots, and agreed to pay wages only at the official rate.· Cigarette-makers agreed in 1998 to pay the states $ 252 billion to settle claims for smoking-related health costs.
· Advisory services are more expensive than execution-only broking. Expect to pay higher dealing commissions.· And expect to pay from the mid-teens to upward of $ 50, 000 for top-of-the-line, fully loaded models.· I expected you to pay me for such attentions, my dear.· The county was only expected to pay half that much for heating, Elrod said.· That is, an invoice issued on 15 January would be expected to be paid no later than 28 February.· Today, he is expected to get paid like one.· It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.· For this example, Mr Hemsley would expect to pay £2.75 / t, suggests Mr Dickie.
· He ordered Fulcher to pay £100 compensation and £100 costs.· Pfaelzer also ordered Keating to pay $ 122 million in restitution to federal regulatory authorities.· James Lower was ordered to pay £4 at once and then 5s a month.· If the plaintiffs win, Simpson could be ordered to pay them millions in damages.· Stevens and Edmunds were ordered to pay costs, estimated at more than £500,000.· Meanwhile, in August he had been ordered to pay nearly F19,000,000 in tax arrears and associated fines.· The mortgagor had been ordered to pay the mortgagee's costs which had been taxed at £60.· Magistrates at Saxmundham ordered Nick to pay the debt with £12 costs.
· But Mrs Mooney is refusing to pay the fine.· Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay.· Because he had refused to be paid she couldn't ask him to come back again to deal with the seepage.· Backus urged fellow Baptists simply to refuse to pay religious taxes; the collectors could not imprison them all.· However, member states can still refuse to pay.· After serving five months for refusing to pay his fine, Terry was released from prison in Atlanta.
· Again, separate life cover is required to pay off your loan in any eventuality.· The tax laws prohibit you from trying to recover from your employees taxes that you were required to pay on their behalf.· In addition to the fees set out above, you may be required to pay annual contributions towards the cost of your work.· The president also would require tobacco companies to pay for a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking.· If your capital or income reduces you will be required to pay less.· Quahanti was required to pay the $ 500 court fee, which appears to be within her means.· Under that lease it is required to pay rents to the landlord.· In the past, up to five forms were required if you paid more than $ 50 in wages per quarter.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the devil/hell to pay► pay court (to somebody)► pay it forward► pay something ↔ off► pay somebody ↔ off► pay somebody ↔ off► pay something ↔ outPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► paid in arrears► crime doesn’t pay► dock somebody’s wages/pay/salary► all expenses paid► fee-paying student/patient► pay heed to something/take heed of something
- She makes plenty of money, but there's a high price to pay in terms of long hours.
- But I had been caught, well and truly, and had paid the price, time and time again.
- He had paid the price of surrendering his loyalty to Jeffries-stag-nation, nostalgia, bitterness.
- He warned us that we would pay the price.
- It started out with all the wrong assumptions about users and their habits and has paid the price in subscriber unrest.
- Now ordinary people will pay the price, as inflation eats further into fixed incomes and economic growth stagnates.
- The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.
- With data filtering one pays the price of decreasing the effective library redundancy and increasing the number of hybridisations.
- Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.
- Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.
- I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.
- Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
- No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
- The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.
- Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
- They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.
- But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
- But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.
- Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
- It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.
- Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.
- People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.
- This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.
- Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.
- Pfeiffer worked as a shipping clerk to pay his way through college.
- But, in spite of the considerable effort and investment, it has for many years failed to pay its way.
- Finally, I offered to become an air hostess to pay my way, and this time, received an immediate reply.
- His father is paying his way.
- If education postpones such dependency it will have paid its way.
- It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way.
- It wasn't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way.
- Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.
- They either pay their way, or they go.
- Installing solar film on the windows will pay for itself.
- At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months.
- But I think I can say that each machine has paid for itself, one way or another.
- Fab 25 needs more strong high-volume chips to pay for itself.
- Growth needs to pay for itself.
- How long for his addition to pay for itself?
- Investment in an agency, branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business.
- Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself.
- Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms.
- Many people end up paying through the nose for their car insurance policies.
- But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?
- Catherine, paying through the nose to search for fun and relaxation.
- That doesn't mean you have to pay through the nose for the privilege of an overdraft, however.
- The message is that the government will cut a deal with any threatened industry willing to pay through the nose.
- They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it.
- After 20 years in jail, Murray feels he has paid his debt to society.
- Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
- How long will the policy pay out?
- If the stock does not pay out any dividends, this space will be left blank in the newspaper table.
- It would be paying out more than it was earning.
- Over two years this pays out 3 per cent tax-free, plus the rate of inflation.
- Rather than paying out subsidies, the Government now receives substantial annual taxation receipts.
- The investee corporation must pay corporate taxes on its income before paying out dividends-this is the first tax.
- The total amount paid out each year by Elf's subsidiaries was about $ 60m.
- You may already have life insurance, but that will usually only pay out if you die.
- I don't think she was paying any attention to what I was saying.
- All I do is pay attention to my body.
- And there they sat without frames, naked in the heat of high noon, waiting to be paid attention to.
- Feminists must pay attention to beliefs about male and female speech, because prejudice is often more powerful than fact.
- However, the candidate's response can be very revealing and interviewers should pay attention to it.
- I wish you'd learn to pay attention.
- Invariably, no one paid attention to them.
- Organizations in this environment must pay attention to flexibility, quality and asset utilization to remain competitive.
- Until you start paying attention, that is.
- How long will the policy pay out?
- If the stock does not pay out any dividends, this space will be left blank in the newspaper table.
- It would be paying out more than it was earning.
- Over two years this pays out 3 per cent tax-free, plus the rate of inflation.
- Rather than paying out subsidies, the Government now receives substantial annual taxation receipts.
- The investee corporation must pay corporate taxes on its income before paying out dividends-this is the first tax.
- The total amount paid out each year by Elf's subsidiaries was about $ 60m.
- You may already have life insurance, but that will usually only pay out if you die.
- A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.
- Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.
- He owes $ 10, 000 in back taxes.
- Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.
- I needed a release from the tax office showing that I owed no back taxes.
- Look, she said, he's left, bolted, owing three months' back rent.
- Next: What to do when you can not afford to pay back taxes.
- The Internal Revenue Service has been battling him for years for back taxes and penalties related to one venture.
- Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
- Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
- Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
- In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
- Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
- There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
- Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
- For six years, the Government have not taken a blind bit of notice of the Audit Commission's report.
- Elton had paid court to Miss Smith for a month, but had made no progress.
- Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.
- And the strategy appears to be paying dividends.
- Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.
- Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies, which continued to pay dividends.
- If they are given a vote of confidence this season it could bring dividends.
- One thing is certain, as the competition increases, worldwide reputation for quality and service will pay dividends.
- Only three of the stocks on the list paid dividends, and the highest of those was 70 cents a share annually.
- Our advertising sales structures have been reshaped, and this is already paying dividends.
- A well planned, well made kitchen that doesn't cost the earth.
- But ... but it must cost the earth.
- He would miss seeing Harry and, besides, a weekend at some hotel would cost the earth.
- In Coventry Sir William Lyons produced wonderful engineering and style-but he didn't believe his cars should cost the earth.
- It is possible to pay the earth for beauty products.
- It would cost the earth, but it had to be safer than Nigel's Aston Martin.
- This is a flexible, well-designed machine which produces quality prints and doesn't cost the earth to print them.
- But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.
- Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.
- Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.
- Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
- If he doesn't do it on time, there'll be hell to pay.
- Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
- It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
- Mississippi has the lowest income per capita of any state, as well as the lowest hourly earnings for production workers.
- Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
- Within the Paid Employment Arena 3.2 Differential hourly earnings are the most obvious indicator of the patriarchal dividend.
- It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
- Politicians pay lip service to crime.
- Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
- The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
- The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
- They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
- Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
- We need to stop paying lip service to them.
- I paid good money for that sofa, so it should last.
- And we'd say, we're paying good money for this.
- Consumer information is an asset which marketers are prepared to pay good money for.
- I paid good money for that, I said, can't I just have a last go on it?
- I paid good money for this vehicle and I won't have the likes of you doing what you're doing!
- It hardly surprised him that people were not too keen on paying good money for that.
- Why pay good money for the same effect?
- Women would pay good money for a glimpse of his guardsman's helmet.
- But do they make us pay over the odds?
- If the hon. Gentleman believes otherwise, he is inviting electricity consumers to pay over the odds for their electricity.
- In the past Coleby had paid over the odds for things he wanted.
- It pays over the odds, and promotes rapidly too.
- The first, and most general, is the willingness of companies to pay over the odds when they acquire other companies.
- They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
- We could have guessed that Abraham would end up paying over the odds, but not as much as this.
- When a firm is mature, with a long track-record, investors are less likely to pay over the odds for it.
- Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.
- There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.
- With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
- For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
- The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
- But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
- But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.
- Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
- It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.
- Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.
- People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.
- This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.
- Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.
- At the graveside, a volley of shots ... before a Hercules flew overhead to pay its last respects.
- Many thousands paid their last respects to Dubcek at his funeral in Bratislava on Nov. 15.
- The Krays, Richardsons, and many more villains had come to pay their last respects.
- This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects.
- For example, one contributor argued that mainstream funding for Whiterock College was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
- He would not answer questions about the lack of severance pay.
- Ivy said the school did not buy out the contract but would negotiate some kind of severance package with Mumme.
- Laid-off employees, of which there have been 105 since January, each received a severance package and a computer.
- Of the $ 27 million charge, about $ 15 million relates to severance pay and plant closures.
- She received three months of severance pay.
- Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks' severance pay.
- The council also agreed to pay moving expenses and provide six months severance pay should they later fire him.
- There will, of course, be no severance pay, and a reference is out of the question.
WORD FAMILYnounpaypaymentrepaymentpayerpayeeadjectivepaid ≠ unpaidunderpaid ≠ overpaidpayableverbpayrepayunderpay ≠ overpay
1give money [intransitive, transitive] to give someone money for something you buy or for a service: How would you like to pay?pay for Mum paid for my driving lessons.pay (in) cash You’d get a discount for paying cash.pay by cheque/credit card Can I pay by credit card?pay somebody for something He didn’t even offer to pay me for the ticket.pay somebody to do something Ray paid some kids to wash the car.pay somebody something I paid him $5 to cut the grass.pay (somebody) in dollars/euros etc He wanted to be paid in dollars.GRAMMAR: Patterns with pay• You pay an amount or you pay a person: · We paid $700.· Pay the delivery man.• You pay for something that you buy: · I’ll pay for the tickets. ✗Don’t say: I’ll pay the tickets.• You pay an amount or a person for something that you buy: · I paid £100 for this jacket.· She paid me for the drinks.• You pay someone an amount: · They paid the owner €3,000.• You pay in a type of money: · Can I pay in euros?• You pay by a particular method: · You can pay by credit card.2bill/tax/rent [transitive] to pay money that you owe to a person, company etc: I forgot to pay the gas bill! You pay tax at the basic rate. Is it okay if I pay you what I owe you next week?3wage/salary [intransitive, transitive] to give someone money for the job they do: How much do they pay you?pay somebody $100 a day/£200 a week etc They’re only paid about £4 an hour. Some lawyers get paid over $400 an hour.be paid weekly/monthly (also get paid weekly/monthly) We get paid weekly on Fridays.well/badly/poorly paid Many of the workers are very badly paid.paid work (=work you are paid to do)paid holiday/leave (=time when you are not working but are still paid)4pay attention (to somebody/something) to watch, listen to, or think about someone or something carefully: I’m sorry, I wasn’t paying attention to what you were saying. They paid no attention to (=ignored) him.5legal cost [transitive] to give money to someone because you are ordered to by a court as part of a legal case: She had to pay a £35 fine for speeding.pay (something in) compensation/damages (=give someone money because you have done something against them) The company were forced to pay £5,000 in compensation. Martins was ordered to pay court costs of £1,500.6say something good [transitive] to say something good or polite about or to someone: The minister paid tribute to the work of the emergency services. I came by to pay my respects (=visit or send a polite greeting to someone) to Mrs Owens. I was just trying to pay her a compliment.7good result [intransitive] if a particular action pays, it brings a good result or advantage for you: Crime doesn’t pay. It pays to get some professional advice before you make a decision. It would pay you to ask if there are any jobs going at the London office. Getting some qualifications now will pay dividends (=bring a lot of advantages) in the long term.8profit [intransitive] if a shop or business pays, it makes a profit: If the pub doesn’t start to pay, we’ll have to sell it. The farm just manages to pay its way (=make as much profit as it costs to run).9pay the penalty/price to experience something unpleasant because you have done something wrong, made a mistake etcpay the penalty/price for (doing) something Williams is now paying the price for his early mistakes.10pay (somebody) a call/visit to visit a person or place: I decided to pay my folks a visit.pay to If you have time, pay a visit to the City Art Gallery.11put paid to something British English to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something: Bad exam results put paid to his hopes of a university place.12be punished [intransitive] to suffer or be punished for something you have done wrong: I’ll make him pay!pay for They paid dearly for their mistakes.13pay your way to pay for everything that you want without having to depend on anyone else for money: Sofia worked to pay her way through college.14pay for itself if something you buy pays for itself, the money it saves over a period of time is as much as the product cost to buy: A new boiler would pay for itself within two years.15the devil/hell to pay used to say that someone will be in a lot of trouble about something: If the boss finds out you were late again, there’s going to be hell to pay.16pay through the nose (for something) spoken to pay much more for something than it is really worth17somebody has paid their debt to society used to say that someone who has done something illegal has been fully punished for it18pay court (to somebody) old-fashioned to treat someone, especially a woman, carefully and with respect, so that they will like you or help you19he who pays the piper calls the tune old-fashioned used to say that the person who gives the money for something can decide how it will be used20pay it forward to do something nice for someone because someone else did something nice for you → pay lip service to at lip service, → pay your dues at due3(2)COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 1phrasespay £10/$50 etc· I only paid ten pounds for it.pay (in) cash· You have to pay in cash for the tickets.pay by cheque· I filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.pay by credit card· The hotel does not charge more if you pay by credit card.pay in dollars/euros etc· American exporters want to be paid in dollars.adverbspay handsomely (=pay a lot of money)· Customers are willing to pay handsomely for anti-ageing cosmetic products.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 3phrasespay somebody £200 a week/$100 a day etc· The cleaners are paid £5 an hour.be paid by the hour/day/week· I was working on a building site, being paid by the hour.adverbsbe paid weekly/monthly· Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.well-paid· Teachers here are well-paid.highly-paid· a highly-paid football playerbadly-paid/poorly-paid· For a long time I didn’t realise how badly-paid and overworked I was.THESAURUSpay to give someone money for something you are buying from them, or a service they are providing: · I paid a lot of money for that computer.· You have to pay to park your car.meet the cost of something to pay for something for someone else, or to provide the money needed to do something: · We will meet the cost of your travelling expenses.· The cost will be met from public donations.foot the bill to pay for something for someone else, especially when you do not want to, or do not think that you should: · As usual, the taxpayer will have to foot the bill.pick up the tab informal to pay for something: · My company will pick up the tab for all moving costs.fork out/shell out informal to pay a lot of money for something because you have to and not because you want to: · He had to fork out £500 to get his car fixed.· Fans are having to shell out roughly $65 per seat for football games.settle the bill to pay the bill after eating a meal, staying in a hotel etc: · She went down to the hotel lobby to settle the bill.give especially spoken to pay a particular amount of money for something – used especially when saying how much you are willing to pay: · How much will you give me for the car?· I’ll give you $50 for the lot (=for everything).something is on somebody spoken used when saying that someone else will pay for your meal, drinks etc: · Order whatever you like – this is on me!· The drinks are on the house (=the bar, restaurant etc will let you have them for free).· Put your money away – the drinks are on us.pay somebody/something ↔ back phrasal verb1to give someone the money that you owe them SYN repay: I’ll pay you back on Friday. We’re paying back the loan over 15 years.2to make someone suffer for doing something wrong or unpleasantpay somebody back for something I’ll pay Jenny back for what she did to me!pay something ↔ in (also pay something into something) phrasal verb to put money in your bank account etc: Did you remember to pay that cheque in? I’ve paid $250 into my account.pay off phrasal verb1pay something ↔ off to give someone all the money you owe them: I’ll pay off all my debts first. He finally paid his overdraft off.2if something you do pays off, it is successful or has a good result: Teamwork paid off.3pay somebody ↔ off British English to pay someone their wages and tell them they no longer have a job: Two hundred workers have been paid off.4pay somebody ↔ off to pay someone not to say anything about something illegal or dishonest → payoff(2)pay out phrasal verb1pay out (something) to pay a lot of money for something: Why is it always me who has to pay out?pay out for Altogether he had paid out almost £5000 for the improvements.2pay out (something) if a company or organization pays out, it gives someone money as a result of an insurance claim, investment, competition etc: Insurance companies were slow paying out on claims for flood damage. → payout3pay something ↔ out to let a piece of rope unwindpay something ↔ over phrasal verb to make an official payment of moneypay over to Clancy’s share of the inheritance was paid over to him.pay up phrasal verb to pay money that you owe, especially when you do not want to or you are late: She refused to pay up. → paid-uppay1 verbpay2 noun
paypay2 ●●● S1 W2 noun [uncountable] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- "What's the pay?" "About $10 an hour."
- For most fast-food workers, the pay is around $5 an hour.
- Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.
- The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay.
- For four years running, the Government's teachers' pay committee has reported that teachers' morale has never been lower.
- If entitlements are exceeded, the system will issue the relevant warning message and stop pay.
- If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.
- Most of all, they need equal pay and comparable worth.
- Staff unions and many councillors last year attacked large pay increases for senior staff in all departments.
- The new chief executive acknowledged he would be taking a pay cut.
- To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.
THESAURUS
money that you receive from working, investments etc: · families on a low income
the pay that professional people such as teachers or lawyers earn every year: · a salary of $65,000 a year
the pay that someone earns every hour or every week: · Her wages barely cover the rent.
money added to someone’s pay, as a reward for good work or as a reward when the company does well: · The company pays an attendance bonus – if you go 30 days without being late or absent, you get the bonus.
all the money that you earn by working: · In a good year, a bonus can double an executive’s earnings.
Longman Language Activatorto pay for something to give money in exchange for goods or services: · Several fans tried to get in without paying.· Please pay at the desk.· I need £4.50 to pay the window cleaner.pay for: · Have you paid for the tickets?pay £20/$40 etc for something: · She paid $5,000 for three nights in a hotel in New York City.pay a bill/rent/tax etc: · Tom paid his bill at the cashier's desk.· There was no point in paying rent on an empty apartment for two months.pay cash (=pay using coins, notes etc): · They don't have health insurance, so they have to pay cash for doctor's visits.pay by cheque/credit card etc: · Pay by credit card at least ten days before departure.
if a company or organization meets the cost of something, it pays for it for someone else, especially when they do not have a legal duty to do this: · We will meet the cost of any expenses you may incur when travelling to your interview.meet the cost of of doing something: · A local firm has agreed to meet the cost of sending ten lucky prize-winners on a dream holiday.
to pay for something for someone else, especially when you do not want to or do not think that you should: · It will be, as usual, the taxpayer who will be footing the bill.foot the bill for: · The program asks businesses to foot the bill for daily newspapers in the classroom.
informal to pay a lot of money for something because you have to and not because you want to, especially for something you need: · The policy affects how much we will have to shell out at the petrol station.fork out £100/$10,000/a lot of money etc: · He had to fork out £500 to get his car fixed.· Fans are having to shell out roughly $65 per seat for football games.fork out £100/$20,000/a lot of money etc on somebody/something: · From the time you enroll them in nursery school, you're forking out a fortune on the kids.fork out/shell out for: · $13 seems like a lot of money to shell out for a bottle of wine.
informal to pay money for something, especially money that you owe or that someone has persuaded you to pay: · You owe me twenty pounds. Come on, cough up!cough up £3/$100/a few pence etc: · You have to cough up $2 just to get into the park.
British informal to pay for something, usually when someone else thinks you should: · His dad wouldn't stump up for a new bike.stump up £50/$200/a lot of money etc: · Everybody in the office stumped up a few pounds for his leaving present.
to pay for someone else's food, drink, ticket etc to pay for someone else, for example for their meal, drink, or ticket: · If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay.pay for: · When we got to the ferry, Eddie took out a five-dollar bill and paid for Terry and me.· Who paid for your driving lessons?pay for somebody to do something: · My company paid for me to go to evening classes.
to buy something such as a meal or theatre ticket for someone, because you like them or want to celebrate something: · As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.treat somebody to something: · We treated Sally to lunch at the Savoy.
to pay for something, especially when it is not necessarily your responsibility or duty to do this: · We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.pick up the tab for: · Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.
spoken say the drinks are on me , this meal's on me etc when you are telling someone you will pay for their drinks, their meal etc: · Order whatever you like -- this is on me!· Put your money away -- the drinks are on us.
to buy drinks for the people you are with in a bar: · Joe bought a round of drinks for everyone.
British spoken say this when it is your turn to buy the drinks for the people you are with in a bar: · No, it's my shout. What are you drinking?
to have enough money to pay for something if you can afford something, you have enough money to pay for it: · I'd love to visit Australia, but I just can't afford it.· I had to move because I couldn't afford the rent any more.can afford to do something: · How can you afford to eat in restaurants all the time?· He's finally earning more, so he can afford to have a holiday this year.
to have enough money to pay for something such as a tax or a bill: · They say they will have all the money on Friday, but I don't think they'll be able to pay.· Some people just aren't able to pay the tax.be able to pay for: · Many people use credit as a way of buying goods they are not able to pay for.
to pay someone to do something to pay someone for work: · How much do they pay you?pay somebody for (doing) something: · They still haven't paid her for the work she did last year.· Did she pay you for taking care of her kids?be/get paid: · We get paid at the end of every month.pay somebody £100/$200 etc: · Ziedler was ready to pay her $2000 a week.pay somebody to do something: · If you pay someone to work in your house, you have to pay Social Security taxes on the wages.pay well/badly: · Jobs in areas that use mathematical skills, such as computer programming, tend to pay well.
to pay a waiter, taxi driver etc a little extra money: · Did you tip the waiter?· It's usual to tip about 15% in restaurants.
informal if you tell someone you will make it worth their while , you mean you will give them money if they agree to do something for you, especially something dishonest or not convenient: · I didn't want to lend Terry my car, but he said he'd make it worth my while.· The basketball federation in Kuwait offered him a coaching job, and made it worth his while.
to give someone money to stop them from causing trouble or doing something that they have threatened to do: buy somebody off/buy off somebody: · Do you really think the cops can't be bought off?buy somebody off with something: · The management has been trying to buy off union activists with substantial pay offers.
to pay someone to do something dishonest or illegal to give money to someone in an official position, in order to persuade them to do something that they should not do: · Santo was convicted of bribing tax inspectors in Italy.bribe somebody to do something: · He bribed a guard to smuggle a note out of the prison.bribe somebody into doing something: · Judges are bribed or threatened into making decisions favorable to drug traffickers.
a large amount of money paid to someone in a high position in a company or government, for arranging a business deal for you: · Top executives received millions of dollars in kickbacks.· He offered me $20,000 as a kickback if I'd push through a $500,000 loan.
British informal a small amount of money paid to someone to persuade them to do something that is dishonest but usually not very serious: · He denies accepting backhanders, though he admits being offered them.· George gave the bouncer a bung, and we got into the nightclub.
to pay back money that you owe someone to give someone back money that you have borrowed from them: pay somebody back: · I'll pay you back tomorrow.pay back something: · How are you going to pay back all that money?· He's paid back about half of what he owes us.pay back a loan/debt etc: · After graduation, the student must begin to pay back the loan.
to pay a large amount of money that you owe, especially to a bank: · The loan has to be repaid within two years.· There were doubts about the country's ability to repay the debt.· My parents lent me the money to buy a car, and I repaid them over the next year.
to finish paying back an amount of money that you have borrowed: pay off a debt/loan/mortgage etc: · The mortgage will be paid off over twenty-five years.· He paid off the loan six months early.pay a debt/loan/mortgage etc off: · The country hopes to pay all its debts off within twenty years.
to pay money that you owe, especially when you do not want to or when you are late paying it: · If they don't pay up we will take legal action.· The company paid up eventually, but only after repeated threats and reminders.
: settle an account/bill/loan etc to pay money that you owe someone - used especially in business contexts: · Please settle this account within two weeks.· I settled the bill and left the restaurant.
to finally pay all the money that you owe, after some time or with some difficulty: · This cheque should clear my overdraft.· We're hoping that we can clear all our debts by the end of the year.
to give back to someone the money that they paid for something, especially because they are not satisfied with what they bought or there is something wrong with it: · We'll give you a refund if you're not entirely satisfied.· It's the wrong size. Do you think they'll give me my money back?
formal to pay money to someone for something that they have had to pay for or have lost because of you: · Pay for the hotel room when you leave, and the company will reimburse you later.· He wouldn't let me reimburse him for the cost of his journey.· We pay for any repairs that need doing to the house, and are reimbursed by the landlord.
an amount of money that is paid back to you, especially because you have paid too much in taxes, rent etc. In American English a tax rebate is called a tax refund: · The Ford Citibank credit card offers a 5 percent rebate on the purchase of a new Ford car or truck.tax/rent rebate British: · We were delighted to hear that we were entitled to a tax rebate of over £1000.
to pay for something before you receive it to pay for something before you receive it: · Customs fees are paid in advance as part of your airline ticket.· Don't pay cash in advance for any service.
if you pay for something up front , you pay or partly pay for it before you receive it, especially in order to show the person you are paying that they can trust you: · I paid the builders £100 up front and will give them the rest when the job's finished.· We've had so many unpaid bills that we've started to demand payment up front.
to pay part of the cost of something expensive, especially a home or car, and agree to pay the rest at a later time: · We saved enough money to make a down payment on a house.· He borrowed money from his family to put a down payment on a truck.
to pay part of the cost of something before you buy it, especially so that no one else can buy it instead of you: · We've put a deposit on a round-the-world tour.· The Center has helped several poor families pay the deposit on a better apartment.
to pay money towards the cost of something so that you can be sure it will be sold to you: · I've put £200 down on a new bedroom carpet.· Greg's parents are going to give us some money to put down on a car.
American to pay part of the money for something you buy at a store, such as a piece of clothing or a gift, so that the store keeps it for you until you can pay the rest: · I'd like to put this sweater on layaway, please.
to buy something and pay for it later to buy something and pay for it later, usually by making small regular payments: · Most people have to make major purchases on credit.· In 2001, 56% of new cars were bought on credit.
to receive goods or services, especially in small shops or places where you know the owner, and agree to pay for them at a later time: · Can I put it on the slate, and I'll pay at the end of the week?
to pay money to someone because they have suffered an injury, loss, damage etc · People are entitled to be compensated fully whenever they are injured by others' carelessness.compensate for · No amount of money can compensate for my father's death.compensate somebody for something · The workers have still not been compensated for their loss of wages.
money that a law court orders someone to pay to you because they have caused you harm: pay somebody damages: · Survivors of the air crash were paid $10000 each in damages.award somebody damages (=agree that damages should be paid): · Damages of £2500 were awarded by the court.
money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm, loss, or damage to your property: · The government cannot take private property for public use without compensation.pay somebody compensation: · His employers paid him $5000 compensation for his broken leg.compensation for: · See if you can get some compensation from the airline for your lost baggage.
to provide money for someone else to live on to provide money for your family to live on: · When she was unemployed it was very difficult to provide for her children.· A life insurance policy enables you to provide for your family after your death.well provided for: · He left his family well-provided for.
to provide enough money for someone to pay for all the things they need, especially if you do this by working: · He has a wife and two children to support.· A lot of people can barely earn enough to support themselves, let alone their families.· My parents didn't have to support me when I was at college because I received a grant.
British to pay a regular amount of money to the person you used to be married to, especially to support children of yours that you no longer live with: · Maintenance will be paid until the child reaches 18 or leaves full-time education.
to pay a regular amount of money to help support children of yours that you no longer live with: · He had been paying child support for his two children since 1985.
to pay a regular amount of money to the person you used to be married to: · The judge ordered McFadden to pay alimony of $2,400 a month.
to provide money to help someone do something also subsidise British if a government or other organization subsidizes something, it pays part of the cost: · Many companies subsidize meals for their workers.· a government-subsidized health service· The city council subsidizes the local orchestra.
if a company sponsors something such as sports event, a theatre, or an art show, it provides some of the money that is needed, often as a form of advertising: · The new league will be sponsored by Pepsi Cola.· The bank is sponsoring an art exhibition.
to provide all the money needed to pay for something, especially an important or expensive plan: · Both schools and industry will be involved in funding the new training projects.· a charity funded by private donations· The state should fund the arts for the benefit of us all.
informal to provide the money for something such as a business or a plan: · The competition is being bankrolled by a New York businessman and computer enthusiast.· Ed Bass, a millionaire from Texas, bankrolled the Biosphere project.
to provide the money needed for something and agree to take responsibility and pay any debts if it fails: · The British government has agreed to underwrite the project with a grant of £5 million.· The venture was underwritten by several companies.
to provide some of the money needed to start or continue in business, hoping that you will get more money back if the business is successful: · Small investors and large companies have both put money into the exhibition.· He put all his money into a dotcom company that later failed.
to provide the money needed to pay for something, especially by doing something to earn or collect that money: · The government uses money from taxes to finance higher education.· She gave swimming lessons to finance her stay in Australia.· It's a great show, but he can't find anyone to back it.· The bank is eager to back business ideas by local people.
to provide a lot of money over a period of time to pay for something, especially something that will later be unsuccessful: · Many biotech companies are not yet profitable, as they continue to pour money into research and trials.
to provide a lot of money for something, especially government money - use this when you do not think that this is the best way of solving a problem or improving a situation: · The way to solve the education crisis is not necessarily to throw money at it.· The Republicans see him as a liberal whose only solution to the nation's problems was to throw money at them.
an amount of money that is paid an amount of money that you pay for something, especially when it is only one part of the total amount you have to pay: · Your first payment is due on July 16th.mortgage/car/credit card etc payment: · The family spends about $1,800 a month on their mortgage payments.make a payment: · He makes monthly payments into his ex-wife's bank account.payment of: · They have a monthly car payment of £220.
British /installment American a regular payment you make to pay back money that you have borrowed or to pay for things that you have already received: · To avoid penalties, pay the installments by the December 10 and April 10 dates.instalment of £250/$1000 etc: · I borrowed $2000, which was to be paid back in monthly installments of $250.in instalments: · You can pay me in instalments if you can't afford to give me all the money back in one go.
part of the cost of something that you pay before you get it, so that it will not be sold to anyone else and so that the seller is certain that you will buy it: · Most stores ask for a small deposit if they are to keep goods for you.$20/£5 etc deposit: · Yes, we have plenty of rooms available, but you'll have to pay a $20 deposit.deposit/down payment on: · She's paid the deposit on a new bed.leave a deposit: · Would you mind leaving a deposit? You can collect the picture when it's ready next week.
the first amount of money that you pay for something expensive, which you will continue to pay for over a long period of time: · For a 40 percent down payment on a new car, the company will arrange a no-interest loan.make a down payment on something: · We almost have enough to make a down payment on the house.
a small amount of money that you give someone such as a waiter or taxi-driver in addition to the ordinary payment: · The boy carried my suitcases up to my room and then stood waiting for a tip.· A 15% tip is considered usual if the service was good.leave a tip: · We finished our lunch and left a tip on the table for the waiter.
money that you have to pay as a punishment · I got a fine for parking on a double yellow line.heavy fine · There are heavy fines for drink-driving. You might even go to prison.£30/$100 fine · He got a $75 fine for speeding.library fine/parking fine etc · If you're going into town, will you go and pay my library fines for me please?
to make someone pay money as a punishment: fine somebody for something: · Stores will be fined for selling cigarettes or tobacco to minors.fine somebody £5/$100 etc: · The company was fined $1.6 million for breaking environmental regulations.be/get fined: · You will be fined for any lost library books.
a piece of paper that shows how much you must pay a piece of paper that tells you how much you must pay for services you have received or for work that has been done for you: · Can I have the bill, please?telephone/gas/electricity etc bill: · We've just had a huge telephone bill.pay a bill: · They left the hotel without paying the bill.a bill for £50/$100 etc: · The garage sent me a bill for £400.the bill comes to (=the amount on the bill adds up to): · The bill for the meal came to $75, including wine.
American a piece of paper that tells you how much you must pay in a restaurant: · A waiter came over and handed me the check.pay the check: · Let me pay the check.
informal a bill that is added up at the end of a period of time, showing how much you owe for drinks, food etc: · The bride's father paid the tab for the party.put something on the tab: · He ordered dinner and asked for it to be put on his tab.run up a tab: · In just two days, she'd run up a bar tab of $175.
a bill given to you by a company or organization, which tells you how much you owe them for goods, services or work that they have provided: · You will find the invoice attached to the box.· They sent him an invoice at the end of the month.invoice for £250/$300 etc: · We have received an invoice for $250.
to tell someone in writing how much they should pay you to send someone a document showing how much money they must pay you, for goods or services they have received: · Some lawyers bill clients up to $300 an hour.bill somebody for something: · One lobbyist billed the environmental group $20,000 for nine-months' work.
if a company or organization invoices you, they send you a bill showing how much you have to pay for goods and services they have provided: · You will be invoiced as soon as the work is completed.invoice somebody for something: · The company invoiced us for the cost of using their conference hall.
when you are paid or not paid for doing an activity or sport a professional sports player, musician, actor etc gets paid for playing, acting etc, and they do it as their job: · Professional basketball players can earn millions of dollars.
an amateur sports player, musician, actor etc does not get paid for playing, acting etc , but they do it for enjoyment: · A group of amateur actors performed 'Romeo and Juliet'.· an amateur photographer
British /volunteer American voluntary or volunteer work is done by people who do it because they believe it is useful, and do not expect to be paid: · When she retired, she did a lot of voluntary work for the Red Cross.
not paid : unpaid worker/volunteer etc: · Perry stayed on with the Agency as an unpaid adviser.unpaid work/service/overtime etc: · Employees were often required to work unpaid overtime.unpaid leave/holiday/vacation: · The company allows its employees to take unpaid leave for various reasons.
the money that you earn the money that you earn by working: · "What's the pay?" "About $10 an hour."· The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay.sick pay (=pay that you get when you are ill and cannot work): · Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.
the money that someone is paid every month by their employer, especially someone who is in a profession, such as a teacher or a manager: a salary of £100,000/$10,000 etc: · The university provides a salary of $3,000 a month plus benefits.· Johansen reportedly earns an annual salary of $4 million. be on a salary (=be earning a salary): · I joined the company in 1985, on a salary of $22,000 a year.a good/high salary: · Our daughter makes a good salary, but she really works for it.
also wages the money that someone is paid every week by their employer, especially someone who works in a factory, shop etc: · Elvina earns an hourly wage of $11.· Without qualifications it's nearly impossible to get a job with decent wages.minimum wage (=the lowest amount of money that can legally be paid per hour to a worker): · Most of the new jobs in the area only pay the minimum wage.
all the money that you receive regularly, for work or for any other reason: · Braund's annual income is just over $40,000.· The amount of tax you have to pay depends on your income.be on a low income (=receive very little money): · Families on low incomes are eligible for state benefits.income from: · Richard has a comfortable income from his salary and his investments.
the total amount of money you earn from any work you do: · Most single mothers spend a large part of their earnings on childcare.· The average worker's earnings have not kept up with inflation.
money paid to a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer for a piece of work: · Dr Allison charges a fee of $90 for a consultation.· Last year IBM paid $12 million in legal fees to a single law firm.· The fee for the standard structural survey is £175.
pay that is too low · Low pay is one of the disadvantages of working in publishing.· These jobs are unattractive because of low pay and inadequate training.
an unfairly small amount of money paid to someone for their work: · In the 19th century, children worked long hours in factories for a pittance.· Compared to what some people earn, my salary is a pittance.
informal an unfairly small amount of money paid to someone for their work: · "It's not fair," she said. "He pays me peanuts, and he expects me to work late as well."
to spy to secretly collect information about an enemy government: · A former US diplomat has confessed to spying.spy on: · For years the satellite spied on secret weapon bases.spy for: · Philby had been spying for the Russians for several years.
the collecting of political, military, or industrial secrets from another country or organization: · Zakharov, a KGB agent, was charged with espionage.industrial espionage (=the collecting of secrets about a competing company): · The banks take precautions to prevent any attempts at industrial espionage while confidential documents are on the premises.
if someone is in the pay of a country or organization, they are being paid by that country or organization to spy for them: · Before becoming President, the general was in the pay of the CIA.· There were persistent rumours that the former head of British Intelligence was in the pay of the Soviet Union.
to secretly join a group or organization whose principles or activities you strongly oppose, in order to find out more about them, or to harm them in some way: · The Communists effectively infiltrated the government and the political parties.· Police attempts to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups have been largely unsuccessful.· Everyone knew the organization had been infiltrated by government agents, but could not prove it.
the activity of trying to find out about and prevent an enemy from spying in your own country: · His novels deal with the world of spies, espionage and counterespionage.· the murder of two counterespionage officers
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + pay Colleges and universities have found that it pays to advertise (=advertising brings good results). The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining. Ordinary people are paying dearly for the mistakes of this administration. Robert failed to pay his dues last year. I earn extra for working on Sunday. She was ordered to pay £150 in parking fines, plus court costs. The debt must be paid in full. a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week The film pays homage to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’. They’re letting me pay for the washing machine by monthly instalments. families existing on very low incomes They made obeisance to the sultan. The hotel workers get paid peanuts. The musicians earn a pittance. Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for organically grown vegetables. The government refused to pay the ransom. The government agreed to pay reparations to victims. It must have cost him a small fortune. I’d like to pay tribute to (=praise and admire publicly) the party workers for all their hard work.
· Nurses often work long hours for relatively low pay.
· The work was steady and the pay was pretty good.
· Workers demanded higher pay.
(=the same pay for the same type of work)· The women at the factory went on strike for equal pay.
British English, base pay American English (=not including overtime pay or bonuses)· The basic pay is so low you end up doing lots of overtime.
(=after tax etc has been taken away)· Their average take-home pay is just £120.
(=for extra hours that you work)· Their bosses had to approve any overtime pay.
British English, vacation pay American English (=pay when you are on holiday)· Servicemen and women get no holiday pay, no overtime, no weekends off.
(=pay when you are ill)· As a self-employed person, you get no sick pay or benefits.
(=pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby)· If you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.
British English, severance pay American English (=pay when there is no longer a job for you)· We invested our redundancy pay in a new business venture.
· They were immediately suspended on full pay pending a full inquiry.
· In 1822 he retired from the army as captain on half pay.
pay + NOUN· Teachers will be awarded a 6% pay increase this year.
British English, pay raise American English· If you get promoted, will you get a pay rise?
· Staff were asked to take a 10% pay cut.
(also a pay rate) (=the amount paid every hour, week etc)· Many workers in the catering industry are on low rates of pay.
British English, a paycheck American English (=the money you earn every week or month)· Stretching your money until the next pay cheque arrives often becomes difficult.
(=when no one’s pay is increased)· Ministers have approved a public sector pay freeze.
British English (=official request for more pay)· The miners voted for strike action in support of their pay claim.
(=disagreement between an employer and employees about pay)· Many flights were cancelled because of a pilots’ pay dispute.
(=the conditions in which people work and the pay they get)· The unions are demanding better pay and conditions.
COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the salary pay’. Just say the pay.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Colleges and universities have found that it pays to advertise (=advertising brings good results).· He read the final page, paying particular attention to the last paragraph.
The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining.· Most people pay their bills on time.
· It was claimed that the company paid bribes to win the contract.
· Is it all right if I pay by card?
· They won’t take credit cards, so you have to pay cash.
· There will be a small charge to pay.
· You can pay by cheque or credit card.
(=pay a cheque into your bank account)· I went to the bank to pay in a couple of cheques.
(=one that you get for doing your job)· My pay cheque arrived at the end of each week.
· Passengers will be paid compensation if their baggage is lost or damaged.
· He was always paying her compliments.
· I’m not sure how I’m going to pay the cost of going to college.
· Millions of workers face pay cuts.
(=one that involves an agreement about how much people will be paid)· They are currently negotiating a new pay deal.
Ordinary people are paying dearly for the mistakes of this administration. (=pay the money back)· The first thing I'm going to do is pay off my debts.
· Car hire firms may ask you to pay a deposit in advance.
(=about how much money employees are paid)· The pay dispute involved 450 staff.
Robert failed to pay his dues last year. (=a job for which you receive money)· 51% of women return to paid employment within 5 years of having a child.
(=with a stamp/a stamp and an address already on it)· A copy of the rules can be obtained by sending a stamped-addressed envelope to the above address.
· The workers’ demands include equal pay for equal work.
· They agreed to pay my travel expenses and initial accommodation costs.
I earn extra for working on Sunday.· You have to pay a small fee to rent a locker.
She was ordered to pay £150 in parking fines, plus court costs. (=pay a lot of money)· We had to pay a fortune in rent.
The debt must be paid in full. (=succeeds)· She gave up a career in law to become an actor, but the gamble has paid off.
a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week The film pays homage to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’. (=pay or charge someone according to the number of hours it takes to do something)· You can pay by the hour to hire a boat.
· Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
They’re letting me pay for the washing machine by monthly instalments.· His insurance paid for the damage to the car.
· She took three days unpaid leave in order to help her daughter.
(=give back the money you borrowed, usually over a period of time)· You can repay the loan early without a penalty.
families existing on very low incomes (=money that the government or employers give to a woman after she has had a baby)
· Has he paid the money he owes you?
· If I lose my job, we won't be able to pay the mortgage.
(=finish paying all the money you owe)· They paid off their mortgage five years early.
They made obeisance to the sultan.· Many teachers do a lot of unpaid overtime.
· The salary figure does not include overtime pay.· If Joe worked 100 hours overtime at time and a half, his overtime payments would be $15,662.
The hotel workers get paid peanuts. (=pay money regularly so that you will have a pension later)· They have been unable to pay into a pension.
The musicians earn a pittance. (=pays you money when you claim it)· I thought my insurance policy would pay out.
Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for organically grown vegetables.· I paid a very reasonable price for my guitar.
(=suffer)· We paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season.
(=something is worth suffering in order to achieve something more important)· Changing his job would be a small price to pay to keep his marriage intact.
The government refused to pay the ransom.· They believe that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax.
· He spent his redundancy money on a plot of land.
· The architect who designed the building paid too little regard to its function.
· She couldn’t afford to pay the rent.
The government agreed to pay reparations to victims.· Large companies often pay better salaries.
· As a senior teacher, she has reached the top of her pay scale.
(=money paid to an employee who is too ill to work)· Only full-time employees got sick pay.
It must have cost him a small fortune.· We pay a monthly subscription for the sports channel.
· Many people feel they are paying too much tax.
I’d like to pay tribute to (=praise and admire publicly) the party workers for all their hard work. (=visit someone)· Perhaps she'll come up to town then and pay me a visit.
· The king made an official visit to Poland last year.
· Some firms still paid lower wages to female workers.
· She hasn’t done any paid work since she had children.
· As part-time, low-paid workers, many women earned very little.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Thirty-two of the top 39 First Interstate executives received two-to three-times their annual pay as severance benefits.· The cost of his $ 50, 000 Jaguar nearly equaled his annual pay.
· The Ministry of Finance has set aside funds to cover workers' back pay and the mines' debts.· Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.
· Rises in base pay are losing their significance.· Under such a system, workers have the opportunity to increase their base pay by learning to perform a variety of jobs.· Regardless, this raise helps to keep their base pay ahead of, or at least on a par with, inflation.· Linking base pay to knowledge and skill rather than position 4.· Thus, Joe can increase his base pay by mastering more skill levels.· There will be a way, however, for Joe to increase his base pay.· This will likely be the only sure way they have of increasing their base pay level. 5.· About 48 % of companies tie more raises to performance, not base pay.
· The basic weekly pay for a recruit to the fire service is £243 - rising to £305 for qualified staff.· The lighting engineer boosts his £15,000 basic pay with bonuses for being on call at Newcastle upon Tyne all through the night.· But it was not included as basic pay when the club's accounts were published.· They established considerable control over recruitment and promotion, and even collected special levies to supplement their basic pay.· The solution is simple: high basic pay for high performance during limited hears.· The unions' move leaves unchanged the central issues of basic pay and a pay formula.
· Religious grumbles continued, but the Government's only serious defeat was over equal pay for women teachers.· Most of all, they need equal pay and comparable worth.· Now the women want equal pay.· Article 6 reinforces the legal rights on equal pay obtained by women in this country, in 1970.· In 1958 the Civil Service led the way towards equality by granting equal pay.· Sixteen years later the same workers failed to get equal pay at an industrial tribunal under the 1983 amended Equal Pay Act.
· Is there extra pay for overtime?· Next fall, two of those teachers will be given extra pay to work here in the program Monday nights.· They just endure it for extra pay or leave.· As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay.· If this threshold hurdle were cleared, then the teacher would have the extra pay for life.· Dividing the extra pay by the extra risk of injury, indicates the implied compensation per injury.· The nanny could be attracted by the extra pay, and her employer could like having you share the child-care expenses.
· They were immediately suspended on full pay pending a full inquiry.· Admiral Klichugin remains on full pay behind a desk in Moscow.· Two senior officials have been suspended on full pay pending a second internal inquiry.· At the moment workers are at home on full pay - they're being assured their jobs are safe.· Creffield was suspended on full pay until his conviction, whereupon he was dismissed with three months' notice.· The officer corps was reduced by 50%, with many officers retiring on full pay.· He was employed three months ago then told to stay away, on full pay.
· In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.· It shows their tax code number and details of their gross pay and tax deducted to date.
· Young males in particular were keener on high pay and promotion than older people, and less concerned with security or job satisfaction.· Industry offers a shot at higher pay, and higher risks.· Unfortunately this is a commitment which is unlikely to be supported by higher pay or additional allowances.· For most estimators, advancement takes the form of higher pay and prestige.· Nothing in this plan would prevent trade unions negotiating higher rates of pay than these target levels.· An analysis of those high pay deals would surely find that most were linked to high housing costs in the Home Counties.· At present, crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay.· The shirt-maker gave up her job, and they both lived on the pattern-maker's relatively high pay.
· Those on low pay or receiving income support are exempt from all the charges.· What they are eventually going to do is fire these people and have private industry hire them at lower pay.· Secondly, how far can the low pay of women compared to men be explained by women's domestic ties?· In many other sectors of low pay, however, the level of pay is reflected in low productivity.· Under the new scheme, cabin-crew recruits will start on lower pay than existing staff.· If not, why will not he accept the provisions of the social charter which would attack the problem of low pay?
· One of the early acts of his Administration was an economy drive which included a horizontal slash in public pay.
· A key element of the package was a reduction in guaranteed sick pay.· Such reduced absenteeism is a social benefit in that it reduces public expenditure through the statutory sick-pay scheme.· Kohl wanted to reduce sick pay to 80 percent of wages.· The terms of any company sick pay scheme also need to be considered.· Thus, one could consider such factors as hours, sick pay, pension schemes and holiday entitlements.· Of course, employers' sick pay does not go on indefinitely.· I remember when sick pay and conditions were added and when, under the wages councils, wage rates were raised.
· The basic weekly pay for a recruit to the fire service is £243 - rising to £305 for qualified staff.· When we looked at the weekly pay that the workers had been getting in 1980, I was astounded.· Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.· Redman regularly returned his weekly pay of 3s. 4d. to the fabric fund.· Even with overtime £3 15s to £4 would be about their maximum weekly pay.· In 1988, the average gross weekly pay for full-time work was £246 for men, and £164 for women.· The final component in calculating compensation is weekly pay levels.
· In Smolensk guberniia 350 telegraph-workers went on strike for better pay and conditions on 29 April.· Together, they won a landmark union contract for better pay and working conditions.· The civil service unions chose this moment to strike for better pay.· On 5 September the Rangoon police went on strike, demanding better pay.
NOUN· In June 1990 during a strike of non-graduate teachers over their pay award, the government brought emergency regulations into force.· Boots chief Sir James Blyth is among the bosses whose pay awards far outstripped rises in profits.· In 1980, the procedure was a prelude to the obligatory pay award of the ministry of labour.· But she criticised high pay awards to some council chief officials.· She expected most of those who had applied for the pay award to be successful.
· Steve Maxwell Yes-the pay cheque would have been nice-although the elocution lessons would have been a bit tedious.· Hall's main pay cheque comes from selling lambs which go to the lowlands as breeding stock.· Harvard Securities recalled the duplicate pay cheque, as well as truncating the value of the next one.
· The country was on a 3-day working week and the mineworkers were solidly in favour of strike action in support of their pay claim.· The attempt to bolster the pay claim with the fear of closures failed.· Equal pay claims were brought and lost by several groups of working women, bakers, confectioners and factory workers.· Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers' pay claim.
· With inflation running at 3.6 percent, that means they are being asked to accept an effective pay cut of 2.1 percent.· But after getting released and not being active and taking a pay cut, it takes a toll.· A third took rises below five percent, 14 percent got no rise and one percent took a pay cut.· Worse, he had to take a thirty percent pay cut for working twice as many hours.· Both he and Roberts, scrappy, even a bit shrewish here, took huge pay cuts to play opposite each other.· The pay cuts were highlighted by researchers for for the Halifax Building Society who quizzed 4,000 youngsters aged 12 to 16.· If Annan is sincere about reform, he should set an example by taking a pay cut.
· Settle things like hours, holidays, pay day etc. right at the beginning if possible.· The company didn't have a regular pay day.· Thirdly, volunteers never live till pay day.· The reason why absenteeism was non-existent on Thursdays was not just because it happened to be pay day.· In many trades it was close to a half-day as well as being pay day.
· An analysis of those high pay deals would surely find that most were linked to high housing costs in the Home Counties.· Uncertainty over performances at the South Bank Centre in London ended yesterday when management and unions agreed a pay deal.· When have they ever had a reasonable pay deal which puts them level with the private sector?· However, when she felt confident enough, she attempted to renegotiate her pay deal and was promptly fired.
· Furthermore, I don't think the pay differentials in Grades 4 and above properly reflect the job's responsibilities.· At issue is a vast pay differential.· Under the Conservatives, then, pay differentials have widened.· She has pledged to reduce pay differentials to single figures within five years by making pay more transparent through annual surveys.· In this case pay differentials and inequality in society would be unaltered.
· This is illustrated by reference to teachers' responses to various externally sponsored innovations and the teachers' pay dispute of 1985-86.· Industrial action and pay disputes dominated the headlines in the 1970s.· The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses' pay review body.· They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute.
· A public sector pay freeze and a squeeze on benefits are thought to be among the main items in the package.· While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions, ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze.· Around one in eight of the survey sample reported a pay freeze for the workers concerned.· Cuts in benefits and a public sector pay freeze are thought to be likely.
· Adults lose special rates for specific jobs, shift pay, holiday pay and unsocial hours pay.· They will get holiday pay for eight hours and then overtime for additional hours.· But some things never changed: there was no holiday pay and if they went went sick they lost their jobs.· The men called to pick up their holiday pay and were told not to return in the New Year.
· It gives the 3,200 staff a 7.6 percent pay increase.· In return, the union says it will forgo pay increases for 1997.· In previous years, their pay increases operated from April.· Each worker learns every plant job, he says, and with each new job comes a pay increase.· The current governor ran into a storm when it was revealed he had received a 17% pay increase in 1991.· The two sides are also at odds over the timing of any pay increase the pilots may receive.· Members of the police force had also demanded a pay increase of at least a 100 percent.· The timing of pay increases has clearly become an influential factor in organizations' compensation programs.
· If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.· This will likely be the only sure way they have of increasing their base pay level. 5.· Current pay levels are already below those offered by other space agencies.· Beginning salaries were slightly higher in selected areas where the prevailing local pay level was higher.· The final component in calculating compensation is weekly pay levels.
· You may also be entitled to departmental maternity pay during some of this period.· What if we have our own maternity pay scheme?· The rate of maternity pay will be no lower than the Statutory Sick Pay rate.· An agreement was reached yesterday which represents a sensible balance on maternity pay.
· They receive no overtime pay, nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit.· Would you add in overtime pay when listing your annual salary?· But no: the firm decided instead to eliminate overtime pay for workers at its packaging and distribution center.· Their bosses, who had to approve any overtime pay, wouldn't do it.· As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay.
· When my grandparents came over, the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather.· Pay cuts imposed on workers have benefited the profits of corporations and the pay packets of better-off.· The 1986 Finance Act introduced tax relief on regular giving to charities deducted from the giver's pay packet.· She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.· Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.· He'd been conned, as if he was an eighteen-year-old kid up from the suburbs with his first pay packet.· Except for the workmen who were already in the pubs splashing their pay packets about.· Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.
· The debacle over performance pay is just one example of the reality not living up to the rhetoric.· I hope to announce that appointment before long. Performance pay will play a crucial part in delivering the citizens charter programme.· The successful application of competition to increase value for money should be an important factor in determining performance pay.· We will encourage the wider use of performance pay inside the Civil Service and in other parts of the public service.
· It wasn't permitted to take incoming calls on the pay phone in the hallway of the hotel.· Donaldson left Mrs Balanchine on the ward and found a pay phone to call his office.· The closest one she can find is a pay phone just outside Mac Court.· When Lucy came out, Josie was on the pay phone at the corridor's end.· I could flip through a fifty-page state supreme court decision on deadline and call in a story from a pay phone.· There was a pay phone on the wall next to the hall stand.
· For workers, bigger pay raises undoubtedly seemed overdue, and something to celebrate.· Hough, 35, advocates making sacrifices in the district, such as not giving teacher pay raises.· The first shot was a pay raise from $ 15, 000 to $ 24, 500.· Republicans are likely to go along with the proposed pay raise amount.· The pay raise also would cost agencies about $ 2. 2 million in fiscal 1998.· Each year, instead of percentage pay raises, teachers could be compensated with stuff.· They are considering 1 percent pay raises and $ 500 across-the-board annual pay hikes to take effect in April 1997.· At the 80 % level, employees get a 3 % pay raise.
· The legion lost its power to recruit foreigners, and the special pay rates that rewarded tougher conditions.· Equal opportunity legislation exists in most advanced countries but this is not yet reflected in equal pay rates.· It is not clear whether more money will buy an increased supply of services or simply finance higher pay rates.· The decision to allow trusts to set their own pay rates has meant that pay bargaining is now becoming devolved.· Overtime camouflages low pay rates, inefficiency, poor management and corrupt trade union practices.· To provide records of work and attendance and the pay rates of all members of staff. 2.· Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers.
· The tribunal ruled that all three women were entitled to redundancy pay.· Thus the absence does not reduce accrued rights to redundancy pay or to notice entitlement.· If Sandie does not want it she will still get redundancy pay.· The last time I saved any money was my redundancy pay, but that soon went.· His redundancy pay and bar work supported him while he did this.· As a result, a volunteer remains entitled to his statutory right to redundancy pay.· The man from Bicester who blew his redundancy pay on a Rolls Royce.
· Moreover, we have agreed in full to the pay review body's recommendations on how to fund the doctors' new contracts.· We will retain the pay review bodies.· To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.· When a piece of work is late they enquire as to their prey's health, and mention an upcoming pay review.· We look forward with interest to what the pay review body will report in January.· The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses' pay review body.· The pay review body with its commitment to performance-related pay is immensely important.
· My worry is that the clamp on public sector pay rises may spark a winter of discontent.· Directors gave themselves an average five percent pay rise in the past year, according to a survey yesterday.· Pro-active means giving your employees a pay rise before the unions demand it.· On March 17, a further decree announced improved material provision for servicemen, including pay rises and housing.· This was just a little added bonus - Alan also received a 27 percent pay rise.· The most important benefits were adequate job provision, regular pay rises and state welfare services.· However, especially at primary level, salaries remain low, and pay rises have not kept up with inflation.
· Recite my entire career history complete with qualifications, pay scale, dates of promotions and dossier of official merit-ratings and reprimands?· Especially at its lower end of the pay scale, the job world does not reward people adequately.· Similarly, we might consider whether educational qualifications or length of service are not also components of pay scales in Western companies.· Others are bumping up pay scales to stop staff being poached and to attract crews.· Structures have been used to implement pay scales rather than principles of organisational design.· One approach to tackling this issue would be to encourage firms to promulgate, promote and publish pay scales and pay decisions.· They are also paying top officials 10% over the normal pay scales.· Aurigny's pay scales have traditionally been below the industry average.
· Lamont limits public sector pay to 1 Public sector pay settlements have been limited to a maximum of one point five percent.· In 1981 conflict over pay settlements led to an unprecedented civil service strike.· The inflation figures, and even pay settlements, have been less awful than might have been expected.· The Government introduced incentive allowances for teachers in 1987 when it removed the profession's bargaining rights and imposed a pay settlement.· In manufacturing industry, pay settlements were down from an average of 9 percent. to 5.5 percent.· Other pay settlements for powerful groups of workers have been preceded by promises to adjust the limits if necessary.· The continuation order has no bearing on arrangements for next year's pay settlement.· The pay settlement had changed her mind.
· As well as his family, dozens of students were there to hear the college's vicar pay tribute to their friend.· And they heard the Prime Minister pay tribute to them when they sat in on Question Time.
VERB· So to do your job, and earn your pay, you really have to be pressing all the time.· As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► paid in arrears► crime doesn’t pay► dock somebody’s wages/pay/salary► all expenses paid► fee-paying student/patient► pay heed to something/take heed of something
- Several cops were in the pay of Colombian drug lords.
- Himself is right: half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob.
- I am not in the pay of any man, Mr Advocate.
- If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.
- Look, a lot of the police are in the pay of the big villains.
- Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.
- The study will analyse difference in the pay of individuals in the public and private sectors of the economy.
- This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors: they were in the pay of the Romans.
- A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.
- Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.
- He owes $ 10, 000 in back taxes.
- Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.
- I needed a release from the tax office showing that I owed no back taxes.
- Look, she said, he's left, bolted, owing three months' back rent.
- Next: What to do when you can not afford to pay back taxes.
- The Internal Revenue Service has been battling him for years for back taxes and penalties related to one venture.
- Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
- Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
- Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
- In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
- Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
- There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
- Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
- For six years, the Government have not taken a blind bit of notice of the Audit Commission's report.
- Elton had paid court to Miss Smith for a month, but had made no progress.
- Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.
- And the strategy appears to be paying dividends.
- Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.
- Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies, which continued to pay dividends.
- If they are given a vote of confidence this season it could bring dividends.
- One thing is certain, as the competition increases, worldwide reputation for quality and service will pay dividends.
- Only three of the stocks on the list paid dividends, and the highest of those was 70 cents a share annually.
- Our advertising sales structures have been reshaped, and this is already paying dividends.
- A well planned, well made kitchen that doesn't cost the earth.
- But ... but it must cost the earth.
- He would miss seeing Harry and, besides, a weekend at some hotel would cost the earth.
- In Coventry Sir William Lyons produced wonderful engineering and style-but he didn't believe his cars should cost the earth.
- It is possible to pay the earth for beauty products.
- It would cost the earth, but it had to be safer than Nigel's Aston Martin.
- This is a flexible, well-designed machine which produces quality prints and doesn't cost the earth to print them.
- But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.
- Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.
- Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.
- Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
- If he doesn't do it on time, there'll be hell to pay.
- Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
- It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
- Mississippi has the lowest income per capita of any state, as well as the lowest hourly earnings for production workers.
- Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
- Within the Paid Employment Arena 3.2 Differential hourly earnings are the most obvious indicator of the patriarchal dividend.
- It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
- Politicians pay lip service to crime.
- Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
- The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
- The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
- They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
- Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
- We need to stop paying lip service to them.
- I paid good money for that sofa, so it should last.
- And we'd say, we're paying good money for this.
- Consumer information is an asset which marketers are prepared to pay good money for.
- I paid good money for that, I said, can't I just have a last go on it?
- I paid good money for this vehicle and I won't have the likes of you doing what you're doing!
- It hardly surprised him that people were not too keen on paying good money for that.
- Why pay good money for the same effect?
- Women would pay good money for a glimpse of his guardsman's helmet.
- But do they make us pay over the odds?
- If the hon. Gentleman believes otherwise, he is inviting electricity consumers to pay over the odds for their electricity.
- In the past Coleby had paid over the odds for things he wanted.
- It pays over the odds, and promotes rapidly too.
- The first, and most general, is the willingness of companies to pay over the odds when they acquire other companies.
- They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
- We could have guessed that Abraham would end up paying over the odds, but not as much as this.
- When a firm is mature, with a long track-record, investors are less likely to pay over the odds for it.
- Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.
- There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.
- With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
- For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
- The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
- But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
- But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.
- Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
- It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.
- Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.
- People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.
- This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.
- Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.
- At the graveside, a volley of shots ... before a Hercules flew overhead to pay its last respects.
- Many thousands paid their last respects to Dubcek at his funeral in Bratislava on Nov. 15.
- The Krays, Richardsons, and many more villains had come to pay their last respects.
- This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects.
- For example, one contributor argued that mainstream funding for Whiterock College was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
- He would not answer questions about the lack of severance pay.
- Ivy said the school did not buy out the contract but would negotiate some kind of severance package with Mumme.
- Laid-off employees, of which there have been 105 since January, each received a severance package and a computer.
- Of the $ 27 million charge, about $ 15 million relates to severance pay and plant closures.
- She received three months of severance pay.
- Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks' severance pay.
- The council also agreed to pay moving expenses and provide six months severance pay should they later fire him.
- There will, of course, be no severance pay, and a reference is out of the question.
WORD FAMILYnounpaypaymentrepaymentpayerpayeeadjectivepaid ≠ unpaidunderpaid ≠ overpaidpayableverbpayrepayunderpay ≠ overpay
1money that you are given for doing your job: Staff have been working without pay for the last month. The tax is deducted from your pay every week. He was suspended on full pay until the hearing.► see thesaurus at salary2in the pay of somebody written someone who is in someone else’s pay is working for them, often secretly: an informer in the pay of the policeCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + paylow· Nurses often work long hours for relatively low pay.good· The work was steady and the pay was pretty good.higher/better· Workers demanded higher pay.equal pay (=the same pay for the same type of work)· The women at the factory went on strike for equal pay.basic pay British English, base pay American English (=not including overtime pay or bonuses)· The basic pay is so low you end up doing lots of overtime.take-home pay (=after tax etc has been taken away)· Their average take-home pay is just £120.overtime pay (=for extra hours that you work)· Their bosses had to approve any overtime pay.holiday pay British English, vacation pay American English (=pay when you are on holiday)· Servicemen and women get no holiday pay, no overtime, no weekends off.sick pay (=pay when you are ill)· As a self-employed person, you get no sick pay or benefits.maternity pay (=pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby)· If you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.redundancy pay British English, severance pay American English (=pay when there is no longer a job for you)· We invested our redundancy pay in a new business venture.full pay· They were immediately suspended on full pay pending a full inquiry.half pay· In 1822 he retired from the army as captain on half pay.pay + NOUNa pay increase· Teachers will be awarded a 6% pay increase this year.a pay rise British English, pay raise American English· If you get promoted, will you get a pay rise?a pay cut· Staff were asked to take a 10% pay cut.a rate of pay (also a pay rate) (=the amount paid every hour, week etc)· Many workers in the catering industry are on low rates of pay.a pay cheque British English, a paycheck American English (=the money you earn every week or month)· Stretching your money until the next pay cheque arrives often becomes difficult.a pay freeze (=when no one’s pay is increased)· Ministers have approved a public sector pay freeze.a pay claim British English (=official request for more pay)· The miners voted for strike action in support of their pay claim.a pay dispute (=disagreement between an employer and employees about pay)· Many flights were cancelled because of a pilots’ pay dispute.pay and conditions (=the conditions in which people work and the pay they get)· The unions are demanding better pay and conditions.COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the salary pay’. Just say the pay.THESAURUSincome money that you receive from working, investments etc: · families on a low incomesalary the pay that professional people such as teachers or lawyers earn every year: · a salary of $65,000 a yearwages the pay that someone earns every hour or every week: · Her wages barely cover the rent.bonus money added to someone’s pay, as a reward for good work or as a reward when the company does well: · The company pays an attendance bonus – if you go 30 days without being late or absent, you get the bonus.earnings all the money that you earn by working: · In a good year, a bonus can double an executive’s earnings.