(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
(v. t.) 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).
(v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
(v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
(v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) Satisfaction; content.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(5) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(6) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(7) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(9) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(10) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(11) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(12) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(13) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(14) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(15) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(16) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(17) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(18) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(19) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(20) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
Payn
Definition:
(n.) Bread. Having
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.
(2) Under the new defence minister, Marise Payne, the appointment did not proceed.
(3) I’m certain he, Ben Stiller and Alexander Payne were all justified in their scorn.
(4) "For the moment our priority is to help low-income families paying for antiquated heating systems because, as a nation, we did not invest enough during the last century," says Southampton's Payne.
(5) So far, only Corporal Donald Payne has served one year in prison for inhumanely treating civilians following a court martial hearing into the circumstances of Mousa's death.
(6) "This is follow the leader around here, and the leaders were Bob Jones and Clifford Roberts," says the current chairman, Billy Payne.
(7) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
(8) The only practical difference between the Abbott conservatives and the Turnbull ministry appears to be Abbott’s backing of a change in the rules of engagement for airstrikes, which Abbott suggested, the US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said he would be prepared to consider, and Turnbull’s defence minister Marise Payne has reportedly rejected.
(9) The seventh, Corporal Donald Payne, became the first member of the UK military to plead guilty to a war crime when he admitted one charge of inhumane treatment.
(10) 30 April 2007: Payne is jailed for a year and dismissed from the army .
(11) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
(12) Open water swimming is a wild, unpredictable event but Payne is, rightly, the strong favourite Key rival Martina Grimaldi.
(13) Australia strongly supports these rights,” Payne said in a statement.
(14) Martha Payne, from Argyll, attracted two million readers to her blog NeverSeconds where she photographed her school lunches and described the contents.
(15) Payne told the ABC the defeat of Isis in Iraq and Syria remained “of primary importance” and any change to Australia’s military involvement would “be a considered step”.
(16) Ian Payne took over from regular Radio 5 Live Breakfast hosts Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty.
(17) The new federal grand jury indictment in Nevada also names two additional key figures in the Oregon occupation: Ryan Payne, a 32-year-old Montana man, and Pete Santilli, a 50-year-old rightwing radio host from Ohio .
(18) FBI officials said they arrested Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy, Bryan Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Payne on Tuesday afternoon after they stopped them along the highway.
(19) The two main contenders are only brought together in the directing category, where O Russell and McQueen are bracketed alongside Paul Greengrass (for Captain Phillips ), Alexander Payne ( Nebraska ) and Alfonso Cuarón ( Gravity ).
(20) Alexander Payne's Nebraska may be shot in black and white, but it comes backed by Paramount.