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pay

[pey] / peɪ /




VERB
be advantageous
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STRONGEST
WEAK
VERB
make amends
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Example Sentences

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The workers, who claim they lost their jobs for attempting to unionise, launched legal action against the company and applied for interim relief - meaning they would continue to be paid until the case concluded.

From BBC

If I got any benefits from my work, I'm asking that you pay it forward as best as you can.

From BBC

About 1.2m people in the UK were affected by banking outages occurring on what was pay day for many in early 2025.

From BBC

If programs pay even when the work isn’t done, the edifice collapses and programs lose their reason for being.

From The Wall Street Journal

In recent years, competition has been intensifying for premium-card customers, who are lucrative because they are willing to pay hefty annual fees and spend a lot, which generates merchant fees for banks.

From The Wall Street Journal