(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.
Solvency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being solvent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The FSA was fretting about solvency when liquidity was the problem.
(2) Without Solvency II we wouldn't be having this debate."
(3) They recognise there is a risk now that needs to be properly managed.” Asked if countries or companies could have their credit ratings downgraded because they were not properly managing the risk of extreme weather to their economies or solvency, Douglas said: “Absolutely yes.” Prof Andrew Watkinson, at the University of East Anglia and not part of the research team, said: “This timely report reminds us that extreme weather events affect us all, that we are not as resilient to current extreme events as we could be, and that the nature of extreme events is likely to change in the future.
(4) The effects on the agencies include attempting to maintain financial solvency while providing quality health care services; maintaining staff morale and productivity; making hi-tech services available at an increased cost on a 24-hour basis by qualified staff to remain competitive; and guaranteeing safe, sound policies and procedures for patients and staff.
(5) He said film studios and music labels had done everything they could to keep HMV alive, agreeing a year ago to take some of the company's solvency risk to allow it to keep trading.
(6) • The Bank fully supported the increase in national debt sanctioned by the then Labour government to rescue the banks and considered the action to be no threat to the solvency of the UK.
(7) We’ve therefore cut the amount of teaching we have to give to our students to the bone,” says Thomson, but it is a plan that will secure the future solvency of the college, rated outstanding by Ofsted in 2012.
(8) In his letter to the Guardian, Hayes continued: “The only time Libor rates were dishonest and inaccurate was during what became known as the ‘lowballing’ period, when senior bankers and central bankers conspired to mislead investors about the banks’ solvency [by suggesting that they could borrow money cheaper than they really could in order to camouflage fears banks’ finances were under strain].” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hayes with his wife, Sarah.
(9) Bank runs, if they occur, will likely arise because of existential risks about the euro, rather than solvency or liquidity risks about banking systems," the UBS economists warned.
(10) After months of drama in the eurozone and its own solvency hanging by a thread, Greece reacted with euphoria on Tuesday at the news that international creditors had decided to not only revitalise its rescue programme, releasing long-overdue aid, but cut €40bn (£32bn) from its debt mountain.
(11) King again stressed that he did not regard the crisis as one of liquidity but as one about solvency and "the buildup of very large amounts of debt where concerns crept in on the ability of the borrowers to repay that debt".
(12) interactive The Charity Commission’s guidance to all charities on reserves states: “Deciding the level of reserves that a charity needs to hold is an important part of financial management and forward financial planning … if reserves are too low then the charity’s solvency and its future activities can be put at risk.” The senior source who spoke to the Guardian said Kids Company had an ethos that the money which came in should be spent on the children in need.
(13) In this report, we describe the result of an extensive investigation of the effects of the conformations of proteins on the solvency of the bulk-phase water in which the proteins are dissolved.
(14) And yes, it is the madness of the right: if not for the extremism of anti-tax Republicans, we would have no trouble reaching an agreement that would ensure long-run solvency.
(15) The European Central Bank has warned that if other ratings agencies echo S&P's judgment, it could be forced to stop accepting Greek bonds as collateral, jeopardising the solvency of parts of the European banking sector.
(16) The insurer, which generates nearly half of its sales in Asia, reiterated that it would consider moving its headquarters abroad depending on the outcome of the new rules being debated in Brussels, known as Solvency II, which are due to come into force in 2014.
(17) Speaking at Camp David, Hollande said European leaders were trying to balance the competing aims of reining in their budgets while stimulating their economies: "As President Obama noted, we need to pursue these two goals simultaneously: budgetary solvency and maximum growth."
(18) As the memorandum says, “all measures, legislative or otherwise, taken during the programme period, which may have an impact on banks’ operations, solvency, liquidity, asset quality etc should be taken in close consultation” with the troika.
(19) Requirements for insurance companies to support their solvency by owning a large proportion of gilts and bonds, and the Bank of England's rounds of quantitative easing, have both had a negative effect on annuity rates, and there seems to be little prospect of these improving in the short to medium term.
(20) Britain's biggest insurer warned in March that the Solvency II rules under discussion in Brussels risked destroying its American business and could force it out of the UK, with Hong Kong seen as the most likely new domicile.