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 roll".
So he pulled this trick to get rid of me, or any of the other detectives who probably are already out after the five-thousand reward my company's offering for the recovery of the pay roll.
Coxine must have found out about the decoy ship, and when we showed up on his scanner, he figured right away that we might have the Titan pay roll.
I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they've been on the d'Anconia pay roll for centuries—.
Here (please to stoop) are selveran cued peteet peas of quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make the tomtummy's pay roll.
Both of them were on the pay roll of the Spindrift Foundation as junior technicians.