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81pay — [12] Etymologically, to pay someone is to ‘quieten them down by giving them the money they are owed’. For the word is closely related to English peace. It comes via Old French payer from Latin pācāre ‘pacify’, a derivative of pāx ‘peace’. The… …
82pay-TV — noun Date: circa 1956 a service providing noncommercial television programming (as recent movies and entertainment specials) by means of a scrambled signal to subscribers who are provided with a decoder called also pay television compare pay… …
83pay up — verb Date: 15th century intransitive verb to pay what is due transitive verb to pay in full …
84pay up — verb To pay for something in total, after a certain amount of time after receiving a purchase. I havent received the money for a week, so its time to pay up now …
85pay up — UK US pay up Phrasal Verb with pay({{}}/peɪ/ verb (paid, paid) INFORMAL ► [I] to give someone the money that you owe them, especially when you do not want to: »After being taken to court, they finally paid up …
86PAY — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index pay noun deposit, payment, wage adjective even1 verb compensate, pay, refund, reward, settle, tr …
87pay up — PHRASAL VERB If you pay up, you give someone the money that you owe them or that they are entitled to, even though you would prefer not to give it. [V P] We claimed a refund from the association, but they would not pay up …
88pay up — you have one more week to pay up Syn: make payment, settle up, pay (in full); informal cough up …
89ˌpay ˈup — phrasal verb to pay money that you owe, especially when you are unwilling to pay …
90pay — See: DEVIL TO PAY …
