Pay

Definition: Pay

Pay

Noun

1. Something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings".

Verb

1. Give money, usually in exchange for goods or services; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please".

2. Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention".

3. Do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?".

4. Bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later".

5. Cancel or discharge a debt; "pay up, please!".

6. Bring in; as of investments; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?".

7. Render; "pay a visit"; "pay a call".

8. Be worth it; "It pays to go through the trouble".

9. As in the expressions "give thought to"; "give priority to", etc.

10. : discharge or settle; "pay a debt"; "pay an obligation".

11. : make a compensation for; "a favor that cannot be paid back".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Pay \Pay\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Paid; Paying.]. (references)

Finance

Literature

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Pay

Covering

Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick.

Expenditure

Verb: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.

Payment; pay; (remuneration); bribe; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation;.

Payment

Repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay;(reward); money paid; (expenditure).

Punishment

Visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.

Purchase

Keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn; pay; spend;.

Receipt

Bring in, yield, afford, pay, return; accrue; (be received from).

Retaliation

Verb: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo; Noun: give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.

Reward

Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage.

Crosswords: Pay

Cebuano (pie), Sranan (pay), Turkish (allocation, allotment, apportionment, concern, cut, hand, interest, kickback, margin, moiety, numerator, part, portion, proportion, quanta, quantum, quota, share, shareout, slice, snack, take, toll, whack).

Well, just don't expect Oz to pay for the limo (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz)

So don't pay me. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

There's no way, 'cause you can't pay. (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Your seed like yourselves will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

How can I ever pay you back, Deeds (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

You lay your bets and then you pay the price (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC)

Your city is tha bomb if your city makin' pay (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

There's no way I can pay ya back (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

How much more will I have to pay (Second Chance; performing artist: 38 Special)

Is such a sweet price to pay (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Sign at a crematorium: Urn more. Pay less. (references; author: unknown)

Even crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. (references; author: unknown)

Sure, you may not like working here, but we pay your rent. (references; author: unknown)

Having your lawyer pay for lunch will be very expensive in the end. (references; author: unknown)

Please pay promptly. (references; author: unknown)

Pay Your Buffalo Bill (1973)

Get What You Pay For (1970)

Pay Later Fly Now (1969)

Live Now - Pay Later (1962)

Pay or Die (1960)

California Couldn't Pay Our Education (performing artist: The Foremen)

Pay to the Piper (performing artist: The Chairmen of The Board)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Pick'n Pay Stores Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Telephones and Pay Phones in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Pay TV Market in Brazil: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Who's to Pay for the Arts?: The International Search for Models of Arts Support (Aca Arts Research Seminar Series) (reference)

• Red-Hot Cold Call Selling: Prospecting Techniques That Pay Off (reference)

• Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention: A Book for Kids About Add (reference)

• Ghosts in the Classroom : Stories of College Adjunct Faculty--and the Price We All Pay (reference)

• The Adjuster: Making Insurance Claims Pay (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Iomas Pay For Performance Report (reference)

• Pay And Working Time (reference)

• Pay Equity Reports (reference)

• Pay Forecasting Service (reference)

• Pay Roll (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pay The Dowry/Cameroon - The Africa In Miniature (reference)

• Why Can't Michael Pay Attention? Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (reference)

• Pay It Forward (reference)

• Fly Fishing Video Magazine Vol.29 Pay To Play - Stillwater Lakes (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pay It Forward [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ceiling Mount for Vt45 *cust Pay Ship Po < 10k* (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sounding device made by William P. Trowbridge for Coast Survey Line would pay out of a descending cylinder and stationery cylinder on deck Similar to modern bathythermograph copper wire instrument Civil War intervened stopping research Probably would have worked. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pay phones on the docks were the primary means of saying goodbye or hello to family and friends with vessels coming and going. Credit: Fisheries.

Cartoon depicting long periods at sea on the BLAKE and poor pay for supporting family. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Figure 69. Expendable bathythermograph made by Sippican Corporation. These instruments pay out a copper wire upon descent that has varying conductivity as the temperature changes. Depth is determined as a function of the rate of descent of the instrument. These are used by ships while underway to determine the temperature profile of the water column and corresponding velocity profile. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Two flightline personnel at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, pay their last respects to the five sailors killed in an apparent attack on the USS Cole as they are escorted from the C-17 Globemaster III that arrived from Yemen. The Navy destroyer was in the port.

The Bronze Star Medal eligibility criteria was limited with the Fiscal 2001 National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress. The Medal will be limited to those people receiving imminent danger pay. (Photo illustration by Virginia Reyes).

We pay less for food than citizens of other nations; the United States enjoys the cheapest food in the world. Each year, dozens of improved products and new varieties of fruits, nuts, and vegetables emerge from the laboratories and greenhouses of the Agricultural Research Service. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Caption: Ediphone Advertisement, "I Pay Your Postage"; April 6, 1915; {29.001/48} (jpg).

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 6, Bordeaux, France. : Pay day at the hospital. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Man Wot Don't Pay His Taxes. / [Robert Seymour]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if anyone die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing of that debt; and if any children of the deceased are left under age, necessaries shall be provided for them in keeping with the holding of the deceased; and out of the residue the debt shall be paid, reserving, however, service due to feudal lords; in like manner let it be done touching debts due to others than Jews. (reference)

And then they have nothing to do, but barely to shew us which that is; which when they have done, I doubt not but all mankind will easily agree to pay obedience to him. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 6: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. (reference)

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. (reference)

In return, Germany must pay over to the French State a sum representing the actuarial amounts to which the said employees are entitled. (reference)

Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (reference)

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up.

Instead of giving the whole reward of learning in one lump, we used to pay for every good answer as it occurred

It is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them

Pay him a wage and take all the crop

Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Most people do not have to pay for Part A. (references)

Many insurance companies pay for sealants. (references)

It may also pay for some of your medicines. (references)

Business

Domestic banks pay no income tax. (references)

Most users now pay a symbolic fee of US$ 2-3 per month. (references)

Low pay also increases a lax attitude toward corruption. (references)

Children

Chad

The Constitution also provides for free education; however, parents complained that they must pay tuition to public schools. (references)

Peru

However, during the year Congress increased the annual budget allocated to integrate persons with disabilities into the economy from $250,000 to $457,000. Although the law prohibits discrimination in the workplace, it is vague regarding the source of funds to pay for the human assistance, technological support, and environmental adaptations that often are necessary to enable workers with disabilities to be productive. (references)

Bangladesh

Unless a family has money to pay for private service, a mentally ill person can find little treatment in the country. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

The refugees in the camps are permitted to work, and the state and central governments pay to educate refugee children and provide limited welfare benefits. (references)

Ghana

Formally recognized religions are exempt from paying taxes on ecclesiastical, charitable, and educational activities that do not generate income from trade or business; however, religious organizations are required to pay taxes on business activities that generate income. (references)

Lithuania

Both traditional and state recognized communities can receive state subsidies; they do not have to pay social and health insurance for clergy and other employees; their clergy and theological students are exempt from military service; and they are not subject to tax on such services as electricity, telephone, and heat. (references)

Economic History

Norway

Banks are developing mobile wallets so that customers can load, say $100, from their bank accounts on to their cell phones and pay for transactions instantly with the phone. (references)

Norway

Motorists can already pay for parking via their cell phones. (references)

Panama

Banks in Panama pay no tax on interest or other income earned outside Panama and withhold no tax on savings or fixed time deposits in Panama. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Newspapers and human rights activists report numerous cases in which a person is arrested in order to force family members to pay for his or her release. (references)

Nigeria

Most prisoners are poor and cannot afford to pay the costs associated with moving their trials forward, and as a result they remain in prison. (references)

Senegal

Magistrates are vulnerable to outside pressures due to low pay, poor working conditions, and family and political ties. (references)

Indigenous People

Panama

Indigenous workers consistently do not receive the basic rights provided by the Labor Code, such as minimum wage, social security benefits, termination pay, and job security. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

Most complaints concerned the labor market, including denial of promotion, discrimination in the work place, unequal pay, and dismissal. (references)

Azerbaijan

Ethnic Armenians have complained of discrimination in employment and harassment at schools and workplaces and of the refusal of local government authorities to pay pensions. (references)

Political Economy

Congo

Oil prices through most of the year remained strong, allowing the Government to pay salaries to most public sector employees, including members of the security forces and some other public employees. (references)

Ireland

The recent spike in inflation has put stress on the April 2000 Partnership Program as the rise in inflation has begun to erode the value of pay rises agreed to in the Program. (references)

Iran

The bonyads exercise considerable influence in the economy, but neither account publicly for revenue nor pay taxes. (references)

Political Rights

Kazakhstan

The election law requires candidates for both houses to meet minimum age and education requirements and to pay a nonrefundable registration fee of 25 times the minimum monthly wage of $500 (approximately 70,000 tenge). (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croat businesspersons reported that HDZ supporters demanded that they pay a special tax to fund the self-government effort and threatened "accidents" if they did not. (references)

Indonesia

The numerous technical problems, due to inadequate preparations and ambiguities in the regulations, included inadequate supplies of ballots and reporting forms, poor training of poll workers, confusion over procedures, and insufficient funds to pay poll workers. (references)

Trade

Finland

Customers are able to handle bank transfers, pay bills, ask for accounting info, send/receive customer mail, do shopping and even buy shares on the Finnish stock market using a WAP phone. (references)

Albania

Such companies pay a 1 percent customs fee on the imported raw materials and are exempt from the V.A.T. tax. (references)

Guyana

Often exporters are required to pay agents overtime for inspections in order to avoid lengthy delays. (references)

Travel

Canada

American visitors to Canada should pay particular attention to the fact that the country is officially bilingual, with English and French as the national languages. (references)

Bangladesh

Foreigners are not required to pay other local travel taxes. (references)

Slovak Rep

Travelers should expect to pay for services in Slovak crowns. (references)

Women

Marshall Islands

No instances of unequal pay for equal work or of sex-related job discrimination were reported. (references)

Netherlands

A legislatively mandated Equal Treatment Commission actively pursues complaints of discrimination in these areas as well as allegations of pay discrimination. (references)

Netherlands

Legislation mandates equal pay for equal work, prohibits dismissal because of marriage, pregnancy, or motherhood, and provides the basis for equality in other employment-related areas. (references)

Worker Rights

Turkey

The union member may appeal such a dismissal to the courts, and if the ruling is in the union member's favor, the employer must reinstate him and pay all back benefits and salary. (references)

Uzbekistan

Student labor in the cotton fields is paid poorly, and students sometimes must pay for their food. (references)

Syria

Arbitration usually occurs when a worker initiates a dispute over wages or severance pay. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pay": ability to pay ♦ able to pay ♦ additional pay ♦ back pay ♦ base pay ♦ borrow from Peter to pay Paul ♦ borrow of Peter to pay Paul ♦ call pay ♦ centrally directed pay policy ♦ change in the collectively agreed rate of pay ♦ combat pay ♦ deductions from pay ♦ devil to pay ♦ dismissal pay ♦ dismission pay ♦ equal pay ♦ extra pay ♦ failure to pay ♦ failure to pay on time ♦ fair day's pay ♦ foul pay ♦ Full pay ♦ get one's pay ♦ give time to pay ♦ gross pay ♦ Half pay ♦ harlot's pay ♦ have to pay ♦ have to pay the game ♦ hell to pay ♦ holdover of pay ♦ holidays with pay ♦ hourly pay ♦ if you dance you have to pay the piper ♦ in the pay of ♦ inability to pay ♦ incentive pay ♦ it does not pay ♦ liability to pay ♦ liable to pay damages ♦ liable to pay taxes ♦ make up pay ♦ merit pay ♦ military pay ♦ monthly pay ♦ not to pay ♦ not to pay attention ♦ obligation to pay ♦ obligation to pay maintenance ♦ order to pay ♦ order to pay fine ♦ overtime pay ♦ pay a bill at maturity ♦ pay a call ♦ pay a call to ♦ pay a compliment ♦ pay a compliment to smb. ♦ pay a fine ♦ pay a heavy price ♦ pay a person back in the same coin ♦ pay a tribute to smb. ♦ pay a visit ♦ pay a visit to ♦ pay again ♦ pay as may be paid ♦ pay as you earn ♦ pay as you go ♦ pay as you pollute principle ♦ pay at the desk! ♦ pay attention ♦ pay attention to ♦ pay attention! ♦ pay attentions to ♦ pay award ♦ pay away ♦ pay back ♦ pay back in one's own coin ♦ pay bed ♦ pay beforehand ♦ pay bill ♦ pay by cheque ♦ pay by credit card ♦ pay by fee ♦ pay by money order ♦ pay by the year ♦ pay cash ♦ pay cash on the barrelhead ♦ pay Cerps ♦ pay check ♦ pay cheque ♦ pay claim ♦ pay clerk ♦ pay compliments ♦ pay court ♦ pay court to ♦ pay court to smb. ♦ pay cut ♦ pay day ♦ pay dear ♦ pay dearly for ♦ pay dearly for smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "pay": pay-and-conditions, pay-and-display, pay-as-you-breathe, pay-as-you-drive, pay-as-you-earn, pay-as-you-go, pay-as-you-learn, pay-as-you-play, pay-as-you're-cured, pay-as-you-see, pay-as-you-use, pay-as-you-view, pay-at-the-gate, pay-back, pay-bargaining, pay-beds, pay-bill, pay-book, pay-booth, pay-box, pay-by-instalment, pay-by-view, pay-cheque, pay-claim, pay-clerks, pay-cuts, pay-day, pay-days, pay-fone, pay-for-play, pay-for-use, pay-freezes, pay-gate, pay-happy, pay-in, pay-increase, pay-key, pay-lock, pay-masters, pay-notes, pay-off, pay-offs, pay-out, pay-outs, pay-packet, pay-packets, pay-parity, pay-pennies, pay-penny, pay-per-stay, pay-per-view, pay-per-wiew, pay-phone, pay-raise, pay-rates, pay-related, pay-restraint, pay-review, pay-rise, pay-rises, pay-roll, pay-rolls, pay-round, pay-scale, pay-scales, pay-sheet, pay-slip, pay-slips, pay-station, Pay-tel, pay-television, pay-to-date, pay-to-enter, pay-to-throw, pay-to-watch, pay-TV, pay-window, pay-workers, pay-your-way.

Ending with "pay": low-pay, mid-pay, promises-to-pay.

Containing "pay": a-pay-gee, live-now-pay-later.

Afrikaans

betaal (to pay). (various references)

Albanian

paguaj (buy, defray, disburse, fee, foot, fork out, give, meet, pay out, pay up, plank, reckon, recompense, redeem, remunerate, render, repay, reward, settle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سدد حسابه, ‏دفع مال (installment, instalment, payment), ‏دفعة (batch, class, impulse, installment, instalment, payment), ‏ربح (account, bonus, draw, earning, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win), ‏رد (answer, answer back, beat, counter, disallow, drive back, pay back, put off, rebound, rebuff, rebut, rebuttal, rejoinder, render, repay, repayment, repercussion, reply, respond, response, retrieve, return, reverberate, reversion, riposte, spurn, turn away), ‏رابح (lucrative, prosperous), ‏راتب (salary, screw, stipend, wages), ‏رخي حبلا (veer), ‏أجرة (rent, wage, wages), ‏جزاء (payment, penalty, recompense, requital, retribution, sanction), ‏دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel), ‏سد دينه, وظيفة (job, position), ‏سداد (rightness, stopper), ‏ودع (check, commend, commit, consign, entrust, keep, keeping, let, let go, lodge, part from, see off, send off, store), ‏وفى (honor, honour), ‏قضى (accomplish, carry out, decree, execute, foreordain, ordain, predestine, preordain, require, settle, spend), ‏مأجور, ‏معاش (livelihood, pension, salary, stipend, wages), ‏متطلب أجرا غير مجاني, ‏مكافأة (consideration, hay, incentive, pay off, payment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, reward, rewarding), عملة (currency, wages), ‏صرف (absolute, chuck, count, creak, dismiss, dismissal, double, downright, earn, exchange, groan, pay away, pure, put out, receive, resolve, scrape, shake, shrift, sterling, turn away, unadulterated, unalloyed, vent, withdraw). (various references)

Basque

ordaindu. (various references)

Blackfoot

iponihtaa (to pay). (various references)

Breton

paeañ (to pay). (various references)

Bulgarian 

наказание (amercement, award, castigation, discipline, gruel, infliction, judgement, judgment, pain, payment, penalty, plague, punishment, rap, requital, retribution), докарвам печалби, доходен съм, изплащам (allow, clear, disburse, discharge, expiate, lift, liquidate, meet, pay away, pay out, pay up, repay, settle, sink, take up), платежен (payment), платец (payer), плащам (come across, compensate, cough up, defray, give, kick in, meet, part, plank down, remunerate, set up, settle up, shell out, stand sam), плащам на, плащане (compensation, defrayal, defrayment, disbursement, dues, fee, payment, remuneration, render), получаване на заплата (pay packet), поемам разноските по, правя (act, advance, contract, deliver, do, drive, enounce, gargle, lay, leave, make, pull, put forward, put out, run off, strike, transact), заплата (earnings, emolument, paycheck, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend, wage), заплащам (pay out, remunerate), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show), отблагодарявам се на (make smb. amends, recompense, requite), рентабилен (economic, gainful, lucrative, payable, paying), разчиствам (clear, muck), разплащам се (pay off, settle), компенсация (amends, atonement, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, recompense, recoupment, reprisal, requital, restitution, set off), възнаграждение (compensation, consideration, emolument, guerdon, payment, payoff, premium, remuneration, return, reward, wage), заплащане (payment, payout, remuneration, wage), възмездие (comeuppance, judgement, judgment, nemesis, payment, payoff, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, wage), надница (paycheck, remuneration, screw, wage), отплащам се на (repay), отплащам се (reciprocate, remunerate, requite), отдавам (attach, devote, give, impute, refer, render, set down, spend), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), обезщетявам (compensate, indemnify, make up, offset, recompense, recoup, satisfy), уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), възнаграждавам (compensate, guerdon, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, reward). (various references)

Catalan

pagar (to pay). (various references)

Chinese 

薪水 (Emolument, Wage, Wages), 開支 (expenditures, expenses), 支付 , 待遇 (salary, status, treatment, wages), 工資 (wages), 付款 (payment), 付出 , 付 . (various references)

Croatian

platiti. (various references)

Czech

platit (apply, be in effect, defray, read). (various references)

Danish

betale. (various references)

Dutch

betalen, uitbetalen, storten (dump, fall, pour, pour out, scatter, shed), dokken. (various references)

Esperanto

pagi. (various references)

Estonian

maksta (to pay). (various references)

Faeroese

rinda, gjalda. (various references)

Farsi 

پول دادن , پرداختن (Defray, Disburse, Loose, Pony), پرداخت (Disburse, Disbursement, Expenditure, Glaze, Outlay, Payment, Payoff, Polish, Remitment, Remittance, Rendition, Settlement), کارسازی داشتن , وابسته به پرداخت , حقوق ماهیانه , تلافی کردن (Avenge, Counter, Reciprocate, Recoup, Reprisal, Retaliate), انجام دادن (Accomplish, Achieve, Administer, Complete, Consummate, Do, Implement, Perform), اجرت (Hire, Wage), دادن (Admit, Afford, Concede, Give, Grant, Impute, Mete, Mind, Render), بجااوردن (Perform). (various references)

Finnish

maksaa (cost, costs, to pay). (various references)

Flemish

betalen (to pay). (various references)

French

payer (pay down, to pay), paie (payroll, weekly pay), salaire, payez. (various references)

French Canadian

payer (to pay). (various references)

Frisian

betelje. (various references)

Galician

pagar. (various references)

German

bezahlen (disburse, foot, fund, meet, pay for, pay off, payment, remunerate, settle, settle up, to pay), zahlen (ante up, defray, numbers, settle up, to pay), Lohn (compensation, hire, meed, prize, punishment, repayment, reward, salary, wage, wages), Gehalt (bulk, content, dimension, extend, Sal, salary, salary package, size, stipend, substance, wage, wages), entrichten, Entlohnung (payment, reward), Bezahlung (contributation, payment, remuneration, settlement), bezahle. (various references)

Greek 

πληρώνω (defray, pay for, pay out, remunerate, shell out), πληρωμή (defrayment, outgo, pay off, payment, payoff). (various references)

Haitian Creole

peye (to pay). (various references)

Hebrew 

משכורת (fee, reward, salary, wage, wages), לשלם (recompense, render, restitute, shell out), תשלום (charge, completion, disbursement, fee, offset, payment, retribution, reward), שכר (earnings, fare, fee, payment, profit, remuneration, reward, salary, wage). (various references)

Hungarian

illetmény (allowance, fee, salary, stipend), fizetség (emoluments, payment, reckoning, remuneration), fizetés (earnings, emoluments, exhibition, fee, hire, improver, military pay, payment, salary, stipend, wage), fizet (defray, expend, fork out, to contribute, to dip into one's purse, to pay, to remit, to stump up). (various references)

Icelandic

borga. (various references)

Indonesian

upah (wage), membayar (disburse, see: bayar), melunasi (expiate (a sin), settle (a debt)), gaji (salary, wage), bayar (pay for). (various references)

Inuktitut

kamagivaa (to pay attention). (various references)

Irish

íoc (to pay). (various references)

Italian

pagare (defray, deposit, numbers, pay up, pick up, repay, to pay), stipendio (earnings, remuneration, salary, wage, wages), salario (hire, salary, wage, wages), retribuzione (recompense, remuneration). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

俸給 (salary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ペイ , きゅうきん (coccus, wages), きゅうふ (delivery, former husband, former wife, present, rest), ほうきゅう (salary), ほうろく (baking pan, official pay, parching pan, retainer's stipend, salary), こうちん (wages), てまちん (wagesfor labor), ちんぎん (groaning in distress, hum, meditation, painstaking elaboration on ones poem, wages), ちんせん (contemplation, sinking into deep thought, sinking to the depths, wages). (various references)

Korean 

급여. (various references)

Luxembourgish

bezuelen. (various references)

Malay

bayar ... membayar. (various references)

Manx

jeeley (dial, overflow, wetness, wetness on ground), jeeilley (contribute, damage, fee), faill (board, fare, fee, hire, salary, stipend, wages). (various references)

Norwegian

betale (to pay). (various references)

Papago

namkith (to pay). (various references)

Papiamen

paga. (various references)

Pig Latin

aypay.(various references)

Polish

płacić. (various references)

Portuguese

pagar (acquit, defray, give, pay out, pay up, remunerate, repay, requite, retort, return, reward, rip up, satisfy, settle, shell out, spend, to pay, unrip), remuneração (comeback, compensation, payment, premium, requital, reward, salary), pagamento (comeback, defrayal, defrayment, discharge, payment, repayment, requital, satisfaction, settling). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

pague. (various references)

Romanian

platnic (abstract), plãti (defray, disburse, finance, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, make good, offset, quit, remit, shell out, stand, stump up), platã (anticipation, charge, check, custom, defrayal, disbursement, discharge, due, fee, hire, offset, pay off, payment, price, reward, wages), plåti, achita (acquit, clear, defray, discharge, exonerate from, liquidate, pay down, pay off, quit, receipt, remit, satisfy, Square, trace), acorda (accommodate, accord, adjust, afford, agree, allow, attach, attune, award, confer, dovetail, extend, fit, give, grant, invest, key, lend, offer, pitch, place, reconcile, set, tally, temper, vouchsafe), aduce un venit de, da (accord, administer, afford, avail, beat, bestow, bind, deal, deliver, deliver up, extend, fetch, find, gift, give, give away, grant, hallo, hand, inflict, launch, lend, offer, pass, push, reach, render, restore, return, sell, send, set, sound, sprout, yea, yes, yield), datornic (creditor, debtor), face o platã, fi compensat pentru, fi remunerativ, soldã, salariza, salarizare (salary, wages), sumã plãtitã, rãzbunare (requital, retribution, revenge, vengeance), recompensa (compensate, gratify, recompense, remunerate, repay), recompensã (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, award, compensation, consideration, desert, hire, prize, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, reward), remunera (remunerate), remuneraţie (emolument, remuneration, retribution), salaria (remunerate), merita (deserve, merit). (various references)

Romansch

pajar (to pay). (various references)

Romany

platsìzava (to pay). (various references)

Russian 

заплатить, платить (disburse, give). (various references)

Scottish

pàigheadh (paying, payment), pàigh , pàidh, dìol (avenge, render, satisfy), ìoc (cure, heal, remedy, render). (various references)

Sepedi

lefa (to pay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podmazivati (lubricate), platni, platiti (defray, foot, pay up, remunerate), plata (fee, payday, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend, wage, wages), plaćati, uplatiti (pay in, pay up), odati (betray, bewray, disclose, reveal, tell on), katranisati. (various references)

Shona

-teerera (to pay attention), -bhadhara (to pay). (various references)

Sicilian

pagari (to pay). (various references)

Slovene

plaèati (to pay). (various references)

Somali

bixiyo. (various references)

Spanish

pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, divvy, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, make good, meet, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay out, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay), salario (gainings, hire, salary, wage, wages). (various references)

Sranan

pay. (various references)

Swahili

kulipa (to pay). (various references)

Swazi

kú-bhadála (to pay). (various references)

Swedish

betala (answer, clear, discharge, liquidate, pay up, pick up the bill, quit, settle, shell out), erlägga, avlöna (remunerate). (various references)

Tagalog

ibayad (to pay). (various references)

Tahitian

'aufau (to pay). (various references)

Thai

หยิบยืมจากอีกคนไปให้อีกคน (rob Peter to pay Paul). (various references)

Turkish

para vermek (ante, cough up, cross smb.'s hand, give money, plonk down, pony up), maaş (compensation, earnings, emolument, salary, stipend, wage), karşılığını vermek (recompense, requite, reward), etmek (achieve, act, add up to, aggregate, carry out, cost, do, get, have, make, perform, practice, practise, render, say, send, step, subject, take, tender, total), değmek (be worthy of, bear, brush, kiss, merit, pay off, touch, worth), bedel (compensation, consideration, equivalent, forfeit, offset, price, purchase money, quid pro quo, quittance, rate, requital, substitute, substitutional, wages, worth), ücret (charge, dues, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, honorarium, payment, rate, remuneration, salary, stipend, terms, wage, wage rate, wages), ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out), ödeme (atonement, clearance, conciliation, disbursement, discharge, inpayment, payment, payoff, redemption, redress, remuneration, rendering, repayment, satisfaction, settlement). (various references)

Turkmen 

tцlemek (compensate, recompense). (various references)

Ukrainian

грошове забеспечення, виплачувати (acquit, pay away, pay out, pay over, solve), оплачувати (defray, foot, pay for, remunerate), платня (appointment, salary, stipend), плата (appointment, capitation, payment), платити (acquit, disburse, give, render). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phong bì tiền lương (pay-envelope), trợ cấp đình công (strike benefit, strike pay), tỷ lệ phần trăm (pay-off), sự trả tiền kỳ trả lương (pay-off), sự trả tiền (payment, pay-out, shot), sự trả lương (pay-out), ngày trả tiền (pay-day), nơi trả tiền (pay-box, pay-desk, pay-office), nơi trả lương (pay-desk, pay-office), kỳ trả tiền sự thưởng phạt phần (pay-off), ghi sê (pay-box), cả lương (full pay), bảng lương (pay-bill, pay-list, pay-sheet). (various references)

Welsh

talu (answer, be worth, render, suit). (various references)

Yucatec

bo'otik. (various references)

Zulu

-khokha. (various references)

latron. (various references)

adnumerati, adnumeratur, adnumeratus, adnumeravit, adpendam, adpendat, adpendatis, adpendatur, adpende, adpendebat, adpendens, adpendentes, adpendentia, adpendere, adpenderent, adpenderentur, adpenderes, adpendes, adpendetur, adpendi, adpendique, adpendit, adpendite, adpenditis, adpenditur, adpensum, adpensus, adtributa, alvam, dependente, dependentia, dissoluta, dissolutae, dissolutas, dissolutis, dissolutum, dissolutus, dissolvam, dissolvantur, dissolvat, dissolvatur, dissolvebant, dissolvenda, dissolventur, dissolvere, dissolverem, dissolveris, dissolverunt, dissolvetur, dissolvi, dissolvisset, dissolvisti, dissolvit, dissolvitur, expendas, expendet, expendi, expensarum, expensum, exsolvistis, luet, lutati, mercede, mercedem, mercedes, mercedibus, mercedis, merces, merces mercedis, pacare, pendebant, pendebantque, pendebat, pendens, pendent, pendentem, pendere, penderent, pendet, pependerat, pependit, persolvo, pretia, pretii, pretio, pretium, stipendia, stipendiis, stipendium. (various references)

gieldan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "pay": payable, payables, payably, payback, paybacks, paycheck, paychecks, payday, paydays, payed, payee, payees, payer, payers, paygrade, paygrades, paying, payload, payloads, paymaster, paymasters, payment, payments, paynim, paynims, payoff, payoffs, payola, payolas, payor, payors, payout, payouts, payroll, payrolls, pays, paystub, paystubs. (additional references)

Words ending with "pay": overpay, prepay, repay, spay, underpay. (additional references)

Words containing "pay": copayment, copayments, nonpaying, nonpayment, nonpayments, nonrepayable, overpaying, overpayment, overpayments, overpays, papaya, papayan, papayas, prepaying, prepayment, prepayments, prepays, ratepayer, ratepayers, repayable, repaying, repayment, repayments, repays, spayed, spaying, spays, taxpayer, taxpayers, taxpaying, underpaying, underpayment, underpayments, underpays, unpaying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apay, apb, aph, api, apie, apry, apy, Hpai, opey, paa, pab, pacy, pady, paf, pai, paie, paif, paix, paj, pany, panyi, pao, p'ao, Papy, paq, pary, paty, pauy, pav, pavy, paxy, Paya, Payg, payi, Payo, payu, Payva, Payzu, paz, pazy, pba, pbaa, peay, peazy, pedy, pey, pfa, Phab, phay, Phy, piby, pidy, pii, pimy, piqy, pivy, piy, piya, pjay, pny, pomy, poyi, Ppy, psy, pty, ptyr, puey, puie, puiy, puye, pwy, py, pya, pyan, pyar, pyb, pyc, qay, uay. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pya, yap.

-1 letter: ay, pa, ya.

+1 letter: gapy, paly, paty, pays, play, pray, pyas, spay, yaps, yaup, yawp.

+2 letters: amply, apery, apply, aptly, atopy, campy, gappy, grapy, haply, happy, harpy, hypha, layup, nappy, paddy, pally, palmy, palsy, pandy, pansy, panty, pappy, pardy, parry, party, pasty, patly, patsy, patty, pawky, payed, payee, payer, payor, peaky, peaty, peavy, phyla, platy, playa, plays, prays, pyran, raspy, repay, sappy, soapy, spacy, spays, splay, spray, typal, waspy, yapok, yapon, yappy, yaups, yawps, zappy.