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  1. transitive verb To give money to in return for goods or services rendered: pay the cashier.
  2. transitive verb To give (money) in exchange for goods or services: paid four dollars for a hamburger; paid an hourly wage.
  3. transitive verb To discharge or settle (a debt or obligation): paying taxes; paid the bill.
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  • Practically speaking the pay was about a pound a day with allowances. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • As a single parent, I often considered applying to OC Transpo over the years as the pay was amazing. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • So that is why when you look at the whole universe, pension OPEB is on like the German pay-as-you-go type of thing, all in then what we expense and what we contribute our pay will be about the same. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • But his pay was all commission-based; there was no salary.
  • It explains that all executives have a "Pay at Risk" part of their salary withheld, meaning that part of their pay is at risk of not being paid to them if they don't meet certain goals.
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salary ·  income ·  pension ·  payment ·  compensation ·  expense ·  credit ·  allowance ·  reward ·  benefit ·  rend ·  money

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pay:   paying ·  paid ·  pays
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  1. Middle English paien, from Old French paiier, from Late Latin pācāre, to appease, from Latin, to pacify, subdue, from pāx, pāc-, peace; see pag- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Obsolete French peier, from Old French, from Latin picāre, from pix, pic-, pitch.

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  1. from Middle English payen, paien, from Old French payer, paier, paer, French payer = Spanish Portuguese pagar = Italian pagare, from Latin pacare, quiet, pacify, subdue, soothe, Middle Latin satisfy or settle (a debt), pay, from pax (pac-), peace: see peace, and cf. pacate.
  2. from Middle English pay, paye, from Old French paye, French paye = Provencal paga, pagua, paia = Spanish Portuguese Italian paga, pay; from the verb.
  3. Prob. from Old French peier, poier, poyer (also in comp. *empeier, empoier = Spanish empegar), pitch, from Latin picare, pitch, cover with pitch, from pix (pic-), pitch: see pitch, n., and cf. pitch, v.
 

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