Crossword clues for paying
paying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pay \Pay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paid; p. pr. & vb. n. Paying.] [OE. paien, F. payer, fr. L. pacare to pacify, appease, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See Peace.]
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To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy].
--P. Plowman.[She] pays me with disdain.
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Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you.
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To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). ``Pay me that thou owest.''
--Matt. xviii. 28.Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
--Matt. xviii. 26.If they pay this tax, they starve.
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To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
This day have I paid my vows.
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To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit. Not paying me a welcome. --Shak. To pay off.
To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship.
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To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind.
To pay one's duty, to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior.
To pay out (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable.
To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.
Wiktionary
n. payment vb. (present participle of pay English)
WordNet
for which money is paid; "a paying job"; "remunerative work"; "salaried employment"; "stipendiary services" [syn: compensable, paying(a), remunerative, salaried, stipendiary]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "paying".
I declined to be present at his suppers, which were far from amusing, and gave the family of the actress an opportunity of laughing at the poor fool who was paying for them.
After paying a pretty penny to both the informant and the owner of the bar, I found out that Adeem visited quite frequently.
By order of the English, who were paying him subsidies, Ameer Abdur-Rahman was obliged to resent this and petition their assistance.
To accord to the accused a right to be tried by a jury, in an appellate court, after he has been once fully tried otherwise than by a jury, in the court of original jurisdiction, and sentenced to pay a fine or be imprisoned for not paying it, does not satisfy the requirements of the Constitution.
Paying off the arsonist was not a problem - they had untraceable cash in abundance at their disposal and they had taken great care not to leave themselves open to identification by their pyrophilic agent.
The Aureole Mine was still paying for itself up to the time when Georgia joined the Confederacy.
That was where his man had gone, and without paying any further attention to the irate shopkeeper, he dashed out through it with Bim at his heels.
At the door of his den I took leave of Birdie, who had been my faithful companion for more than 700 miles of traveling, and of Evans, who had been uniformly kind to me and just in all his dealings, even to paying to me at that moment the very last dollar he owed me.
Only templars can leave corpses at the boneyard without paying the knacker at the gate.
The cartel considered him adequate for paying Smith his bribes, and for balancing the ledgers at that bordello I mentioned, but Moore found out that cartel headquarters in Prussia considered their man not cutthroat enough to handle the next phase of their plan to crush us.
One of them, a Lieutenant Brack, is particularly worth paying attention to.
Three men, armed with guns and looking like banditti, came in shortly after I had gone to bed, speaking a kind of slang which I could not make out, swearing, raging, and paying no attention to me.
A fine old man came forward to meet me, and paying me many well-turned compliments introduced me to those present.
I trod water and organized the nylon cord, then struck out for the edge of the cenote, paying out the cord behind me, until I grasped a tree root at water-level.
Marber might have been cheating his artists and clients alike: charging over the odds, paying too little .