Pay Paid Money I Paying Extra Examples Heed

• who's paying?
• i'll pay for the tickets.
• you have to pay extra for a single room.
• many consumers are willing to pay more for better service.

pay

Verb Forms

1. to give somebody money for work, goods, services, etc.
• SEE ALSO low-paid
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• Who's paying?
• I'll pay for the tickets.
• You have to pay extra for a single room.
• Many consumers are willing to pay more for better service.
• Let me pay you for your time.
• Her parents paid for her to go to Canada.
• Would you mind paying the taxi driver?
• She's paid $200 a day.
• Let me pay the bill.
• Are you paying by card?
• to pay (in) cash
• She pays £200 a week for this apartment.
• I don't pay you to sit around all day doing nothing!
• I pay him £10 to clean the car.

Extra Examples

• How much did you pay for your new car?
• I would gladly pay for the benefits such a tax would bring.
• The revenue will be used to help pay for environmental improvements.
• Protesters against the tax carried banners reading ‘Can't pay! Won't pay!’
• You can expect to pay upwards of £200 a night at this exclusive hotel.
• There's a 5% discount if you pay cash.
• She pays her workers very well.
2. to give somebody money that you owe them
• to pay a fee/bill/fine/debt
• to pay your rent
• Everyone has to pay their taxes.
• The union paid all her legal costs.
• Membership fees should be paid to the secretary.
• He still hasn't paid me the money he owes me.

Extra Examples

• He was made bankrupt for failing to pay debts of over £2 million.
• The company was ordered to pay the five workers £5 000 in compensation each.
• It is for the courts to decide who is liable to pay damages.
• We pay £300 a week to our landlord.
• Have you paid him the rent yet?
3. to give or provide a particular amount of money for the work that somebody does
• Software firms generally pay well (= pay high salaries).
• jobs that pay less than £10 an hour
• I need to get a job that pays better.
4. used with some nouns to show that you are giving or doing the thing mentioned
• Most of the students weren't paying attention.
• The director paid tribute to all she had done for the charity.
• He paid a visit to Japan last year.
• The film pays homage to classic Hollywood musicals.
• I'll pay you a visit when I'm next in town.
• He's always paying me compliments.

Extra Examples

• I paid a call on my friends.
• When a friend tracks him down and pays him a call, Henry gives him a drubbing.
• I didn't pay attention to what she was saying.
5. to produce a profit; to result in some advantage for somebody
• It's hard to make farming pay.
• Crime doesn't pay.
• It pays to keep up to date with your work.
• It would probably pay you to hire an accountant.

Extra Examples

• Sometimes, the film tells us, crime does pay.
• Doing business with the United States pays, and pays very well.
• Learning pays in all sorts of ways—it can be the first step to a job or better job and to making new friends.
6. to suffer or be punished for your beliefs or actions
• You'll pay for that remark!
• He will pay dearly for what he did.
• Many people paid with their lives (= they died).
7. to cost/pay a lot of money
8. a lot of trouble
• There'll be hell to pay when he finds out.
9. to pay careful attention to somebody/something
• They gave little heed to the rumours.
• I paid no heed at the time but later I had cause to remember what he’d said.
• Small businesses would be wise to take heed of the warnings contained in the Chancellor’s speech.
• She took little heed of her surroundings.
• They paid no heed to the advice.
10. the person who provides the money for something can also control how it is spent
11. to give no attention to somebody/something
• People call him names sometimes, but he doesn't pay them any mind.
12. to treat somebody with great respect in order to gain favour with them
13. to work hard and gain experience, so that you deserve success or respect
• As a young actor, he paid his dues in small roles.
• She is incredibly qualified and has paid her dues to become president.
14. to do what is required or expected of you
• Vick paid his dues (= completed his punishment), and since being released from prison has been a model citizen.
15. to save as much money as it cost
• The rail pass will pay for itself after about two trips.
16. used to emphasize that something cost(s) a lot of money, especially if the money is wasted
• I paid good money for this jacket, and now look at it—it's ruined!
17. to suffer because of bad luck, a mistake or something you have done
• He looked terrible this morning. I think he's paying the penalty for all those late nights.
• They're now paying the price for past mistakes.
• She thinks that any inconvenience is a price worth paying for living in such a beautiful place.

Extra Examples

• He's now paying the penalty for his misspent youth.
• If Mac had killed Caroline, then he was going to make him pay the price.
18. to visit somebody or to send a message of good wishes as a sign of respect for them
• Many came to pay their last respects (= by attending somebody's funeral).
19. to pay too much money for something
20. to make enough money to pay what it costs to keep it going
• The bridge is still not paying its way.
21. to pay for everything yourself without having to rely on anyone else’s money
22. to borrow money from one person to pay back what you owe to another person; to take money from one thing to use for something else
23. used for saying that there is very little difference between two or more things that you can choose

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘pacify’): from Old French paie (noun), payer (verb), from Latin pacare ‘appease’, from pax, pac- ‘peace’. The notion of ‘payment’ arose from the sense of ‘pacifying’ a creditor.