Pay means to settle a bill or a debt, such as paying the check at a restaurant or paying your electric bill. Sometimes you can pay in advance, meaning you pay for the product or service before you receive it.

n. 1. The act of paying or state of being paid. 2. Money given in return for work done; salary; wages. 3. a. Recompense or reward: Your thanks are pay enough.

โ€ข Our fixed rate savings account currently pays 6.5% interest. โ€ข Several fans tried to get in without paying. โ€ข Although both of them worked hard, they couldn't make the business pay. โ€ข If I go out for a โ€ฆ

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Definition of 'paying' paying in British English (หˆpeษชษชล‹ ) adjective giving money (in exchange for goods, services, etc)

When you pay, you give money in return for something. Itโ€™s not always money, though. If your brother says, โ€œYouโ€™ll pay for this!โ€ after you snooped in his room, heโ€™s not talking about money. He means โ€ฆ

Definition of pay verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to give somebody money for work, goods, services, etc. Who's paying? pay for something I'll pay for the โ€ฆ

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