The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pay \Pay\, n.
Satisfaction; content.
--Chaucer.-
An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Where only merit constant pay receives.
--Pope.There is neither pay nor plunder to be got.
--L'Estrange.Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.
Half pay. See under Half.
Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts.
Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.]
Pay office, a place where payment is made.
Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due.
Usage examples of "pay office".
Offhand I think you will have to pay office space rates-that's a factor of three point five-but I'll have to take it up with the chief accountant.
Offhand I think you will have to pay office space rates-that’.
Manfred's travel papers were issued by one of Hendrick's Buffaloes, a clerk in the pay office of ERPM, and they were totally authentic.
I know they need a clerk up at the pay office, and the paymaster is a comrade, a member of the party.
But so far, no one had appeared in support of these day-dreams: the only girls he met at home were the approved daughters of his mother's friends, selected, it seemed to him, for their inherent wholesomeness, and his only feminine contact at Liverpool was a Wren in the Pay Office, who was much too interested in her career to spare any attention for a sub-lieutenant, and met his tentative advances with a smile as thin as his single stripe.
We practised in the Assembly Room first, Fridays, see, that's on the other side of the lobby next to the pay office, and then he'd come on up after, for a cup of tea, like.
Stone phoned Pay Office, told them: 'Conti, from Security - he's finished here.
His parents, John and Elizabeth, were middle class, genteel, but spectacularly improvident: his father, though respectably employed by the Navy Pay Office, was frequently in debt.
Coming under the Pay Office was the Pay Branch for Paying Seamen's Wages.