Pay - English meaning

verb

Have enough money to pay for.

Usage examples:

The best that i could afford was a first-floor room

verb

To have enough money or time to buy, keep, or do something

Usage examples:

[ t ] i don’t know how he can afford a new car., [ i ] can you afford to take any time off work?

verb

To be able to buy or do something because you have enough money

Usage examples:

He is over 60 and can't afford his pension contributions., can afford to do sth debt is not necessa…

noun

The amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose.

Usage examples:

Your baggage allowance

verb

Give (someone) a sum of money as an allowance.

Usage examples:

I have made up my mind to allowance him

noun

The amount of something available or needed for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

What is the recommended daily allowance of vitamin a?

verb

Make amends or reparation.

Usage examples:

A human sacrifice to atone for the sin

verb

To do something that shows you are sorry for something bad that you did or for something that you failed to do

Usage examples:

The director of the company has expressed a wish to atone for her past sins.

noun

The rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips.

Usage examples:

He lay on his back

adverb

In the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or travelling towards.

Usage examples:

He moved back a pace

verb

Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Usage examples:

He had a newspaper empire backing him

verb

Confer or present (an honour, right, or gift).

Usage examples:

The office was bestowed on him by the monarch of this realm

verb

To give something as an honour or present

Usage examples:

The george cross is a decoration that is bestowed upon/on british civilians for acts of great brave…

verb

Take the chance to gain advantage from.

Usage examples:

Do they have what it takes to capitalize on this emerging opportunity?

verb

To supply money to a business so that it can operate or develop, or to get enough money to do this

Usage examples:

Be capitalized at sth he said that he expected most companies that are capitalized at $500,000 or m…

verb

To write a letter of the alphabet as a capital, or to write the first letter of a word as a capital

Usage examples:

The names of political parties are always capitalized, e.g. the green party.

noun

Something, typically money, awarded to someone in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury.

Usage examples:

He is seeking compensation for injuries suffered at work

noun

The combination of payment and other benefits that an employee receives for doing their job

Usage examples:

Annual compensation for our executives includes salary, bonus, and other benefits., poor compensati…

noun

Money that is paid to someone in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem

Usage examples:

In compensation for she received £40,000 in compensation for a lost eye., in compensation we were g…

plural noun

Money obtained in return for labour or services.

Usage examples:

He claimed damages for loss of earnings

plural noun

The amount of money that you are paid for the work you do, or the profit that a company makes

noun

A company's or industry's profits in a particular period

Usage examples:

Earnings from record sales topped £5 million., lower/strong/record earnings it was one of the few c…

verb

Provide with a quality, ability, or asset.

Usage examples:

He was endowed with tremendous physical strength

verb

To give money that will provide an income for a college or university, a hospital, or other organization

Usage examples:

In 1937, mellon endowed the national gallery of art., people think jefferson was endowed with great…

verb

To give a large amount of money to pay for creating a college, hospital, etc., or to provide an income for it

Usage examples:

$1.5 million was donated to endow a university chair in his name.

verb

Cause to cover a wider area; make larger.

Usage examples:

The car park has been extended

verb

Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope

verb

To reach, continue, or stretch

Usage examples:

[ i ] farmland extends for miles in every direction., [ i ] the meeting extended into the late hour…

noun

The management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies.

Usage examples:

The firm's finance department

verb

Provide funding for (a person or enterprise).

Usage examples:

The health service is financed almost entirely by the taxpayer

verb

The commercial activity of providing funds and capital

noun

A sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

He had set up a fund to coordinate economic investment

verb

Provide with money for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

The world bank refused to fund the project

noun

A sum of money saved and made available for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

A scholarship fund for college students, the company’s pension fund, he plans to donate money to fu…

verb

Freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone).

Usage examples:

She gave him presents and clothes

noun

Capacity to bend or alter in shape under pressure.

Usage examples:

Plastic pots that have enough give to accommodate the vigorous roots

Transfer possession of something concrete or abstract

verb

Agree to give or allow (something requested) to.

Usage examples:

They were granted a meeting

noun

A sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

A research grant

verb

To give, agree to give, or do something that another person has asked for, esp. as an official or formal act

Usage examples:

She was granted american citizenship., [ + (that) clause ] i grant you (that) it must have been ups…

noun

A payment given for professional services that are rendered nominally without charge.

Usage examples:

Some of it goes straight to individuals in the form of consulting fees, contracts, honoraria, and s…

noun

A sum of money paid to someone for providing a service or winning a prize

Usage examples:

The board will meet three times a year and members will be paid a $3,500 honorarium per meeting, pl…

noun

A usually small amount of money paid to someone for a service for which no official charge is made

Usage examples:

We usually offer our visiting lecturers an honorarium of £500.

noun

Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.

Usage examples:

He has a nice home and an adequate income

noun

Money that is earned from doing work or received from investments

noun

Money earned by a person, company, government, etc. over particular period of time

Usage examples:

An income of to qualify, you must have an income of $24,000 or less., earn/have/receive (an) income…

verb

Compensate (someone) for harm or loss.

Usage examples:

Each of the parties shall indemnify me for all reasonable costs of defending such actions and proce…

verb

To pay someone for loss or damage that they have suffered, or to formally promise to do this

Usage examples:

Idemnify sb against sth the insurer will indemnify the policyholder against loss of or damage to th…

verb

To pay or promise to pay someone an amount of money if they suffer damage or loss

Usage examples:

Indemnify someone against something in return for a premium, the underwriter agrees to indemnify th…

verb

Present or proffer (something) for (someone) to accept or reject as desired.

Usage examples:

May i offer you a drink?

noun

An expression of readiness to do or give something if desired.

Usage examples:

Sympathetic offers of help

verb

Present for acceptance or rejection

idiom

To experience the bad result of something you have done

Usage examples:

If you abuse your body now, you'll pay the price when you're older.

noun

The action or process of paying someone or something or of being paid.

Usage examples:

Ask for a discount for payment by cash

noun

An amount of money paid, or the act of paying

Usage examples:

[ c ] when is the first payment due?, [ u ] usually we ask for payment when the order is placed.

noun

An amount of money that has been paid or is expected to be paid

Usage examples:

For the fiscal year ended february 28 2010, payments from class a shares amounted to $1,470., mortg…

abbreviation

Pair.

Usage examples:

Patterned gloves, £7.99/pr

abbreviation

Proportional representation.

Usage examples:

Pr has been a success in germany

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 59, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series.

adjective

In a particular place.

Usage examples:

A doctor must be present at the ringside

noun

The period of time now occurring.

Usage examples:

They are happy and at peace, refusing to think beyond the present

verb

Give or award formally or ceremonially.

Usage examples:

The duke presented certificates to the men

verb

Hold out or put forward (something) to someone for acceptance.

Usage examples:

She proffered a glass of wine

noun

An offer or proposal.

Usage examples:

And then, as i found out only the same day, on march 23 of 1983, he, in a five-minute segment at th…

verb

Make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.

Usage examples:

Offenders should recompense their victims

noun

Compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made.

Usage examples:

Adequate recompense for workers who lose their jobs

noun

Payment given to someone for an injury suffered, or for the loss of or damage to property

Usage examples:

The government seized the land without recompense to the owners.

verb

Repay (a person who has spent or lost money).

Usage examples:

The investors should be reimbursed for their losses

noun

The action of repaying a person who has spent or lost money.

Usage examples:

Reimbursement of everyday medical costs

noun

The act of paying back, or the money that is paid back

verb

Pay (someone) for services rendered or work done.

Usage examples:

They should be remunerated fairly for their work

verb

To pay someone for work that they have done or services that they have provided

Usage examples:

Be remunerated for sth we have had a lot of input into the project and we expect to be remunerated …

noun

Money paid for work or a service.

Usage examples:

They work in excess of their contracted hours for no additional remuneration

verb

Provide or give (a service, help, etc.).

Usage examples:

Money serves as a reward for services rendered

noun

A first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface.

Usage examples:

Set stainless steel beads in position and apply scratch coat render at a thickness of 6/8mm.

verb

Give or supply

noun

A revolution of an engine per minute.

Usage examples:

An engine speed of 1,750 revs

verb

Increase the running speed of (an engine) or the engine speed of (a vehicle) by pressing the accelerator, especially while the clutch is disengaged.

Usage examples:

He revved up the engine and drove off

abbreviation

The book of revelation (in biblical references).

noun

A thing given in recognition of service, effort, or achievement.

Usage examples:

The holiday was a reward for 40 years' service with the company

verb

Give something to (someone) in recognition of their services, efforts, or achievements.

Usage examples:

The engineer who supervised the work was rewarded with the mbe

noun

A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

Usage examples:

He received a salary of £24,000

verb

Pay a salary to.

Usage examples:

The chinese system—salary the doctor and stop his pay when you get ill

noun

A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.

Usage examples:

A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone wer…

verb

A territorial division of the mormon church under the jurisdiction of a president.

verb

Gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race.

Usage examples:

One gambler staked everything he'd got and lost

noun

A fixed regular sum paid as a salary or as expenses to a clergyman, teacher, or public official.

Usage examples:

The rise was ‘three per cent - a percentage in line with the rise in stipends for all clergymen,’ h…

noun

A fixed, regular income that is usually not based on an amount of work done

Usage examples:

As a student advisor, she gets a monthly stipend from the college.

noun

An amount of money that is paid regularly to someone, especially for work or training that is usually unpaid

Usage examples:

An $80-a-month stipend covers each volunteer's personal expenses., in addition to their regular sal…

verb

Experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).

Usage examples:

He suffered intense pain

verb

To experience or show the effects of something bad

Usage examples:

[ t ] about 50,000 bicyclists suffer serious head injuries each year., [ t ] block’s own farm has s…

collocation

To accept and deal with the results of a particular action or situation, often ones that are bad or not convenient

Usage examples:

Many schoolchildren are still suffering the consequences of disruption to the education system duri…

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

noun

A thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.

Usage examples:

The best support for a camera is a tripod

verb

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

noun

The pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering.

Usage examples:

George pressed the tips of his fingers together

verb

Attach to or cover the end or extremity of.

Usage examples:

The peaks of the mountains were tipped with snow

noun

A place where rubbish is left.

Usage examples:

A rubbish tip

noun

A fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis.

Usage examples:

We were struggling to get better wages

verb

Carry on (a war or campaign).

Usage examples:

It is necessary to destroy their capacity to wage war

noun

An amount of money that is paid to an employee, esp. for each hour worked

Usage examples:

An hourly wage, a desperate medical battle is being waged against the virus.

noun

A fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis.

Usage examples:

We were struggling to get better wages

verb

Carry on (a war or campaign).

Usage examples:

It is necessary to destroy their capacity to wage war

noun

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