Definition of Pay

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Definition of Pay

Pay

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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.

Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.

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).

To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.

To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.

To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.

Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.

Satisfaction; content.

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.

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Pay Quotations

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Zig Ziglar

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

Pay Translations

pay in Afrikaans is betaal
pay in Danish is betale
pay in Dutch is storten, betalen, uitbetalen, dokken
pay in Finnish is maksaa
pay in French is payent, payez, faire un versement, payer, payons
pay in German is bezahle, bezahlen, bezahlen
pay in Italian is stipendio, liquidare, pagare
pay in Latin is merces mercedis
pay in Norwegian is betale
pay in Portuguese is pagamento, pagar
pay in Spanish is pagar, acreditar

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