Pay means to settle a bill or a debt, such as paying the check at a restaurant or paying your electric bill. Sometimes you can pay in advance, meaning you pay for the product or service before you receive it.

PAYING meaning: 1. giving money to someone for something: 2. giving money to someone for something: . Learn more.

When you pay, you give money in return for something. Itโ€™s not always money, though. If your brother says, โ€œYouโ€™ll pay for this!โ€ after you snooped in his room, heโ€™s not talking about money. He means โ€ฆ

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Definition of pay verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to give somebody money for work, goods, services, etc. Who's paying? pay for something I'll pay for the โ€ฆ

Definition of 'paying' paying in British English (หˆpeษชษชล‹ ) adjective giving money (in exchange for goods, services, etc)

n. 1. The act of paying or state of being paid. 2. Money given in return for work done; salary; wages. 3. a. Recompense or reward: Your thanks are pay enough.

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