Thesaurus / pay one's dues
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synonyms for pay one's dues
- apologize
- redeem
- absolve
- answer
- appease
- balance
- correct
- counterbalance
- expiate
- offset
- outweigh
- pay
- propitiate
- recompense
- reconcile
- redress
- repair
- square
- do penance
- make amends
- make redress
- make reparation
- make up for
- set off
- take one's medicine
- acquire
- bring in
- collect
- derive
- draw
- gain
- get
- make
- obtain
- pick up
- realize
- reap
- receive
- score
- secure
- win
- attain
- clear
- consummate
- cop
- effect
- gather
- gross
- hustle
- net
- perform
- procure
- profit
- pull
- rate
- snag
- sock
- turn
- wrangle
- be gainfully employed
- be in line for
- bring home
- bring home the bacon
- bring home the groceries
- clean up
- make fast buck
- make it big
- pull down
- scare up
- scrape together
- absolve
- amend
- appease
- atone
- compensate
- correct
- excuse
- forgive
- rectify
- redeem
- redress
- remedy
- atone for
- do penance
- square things
- pay back
- repay
- punish
- reciprocate
- recompense
- requite
- retaliate
- square
- avenge oneself
- get even
- make up for
- settle a score
- square things
- repay
- retaliate
- barter
- correspond
- interchange
- match
- recompense
- render
- reply
- requite
- respond
- retort
- return
- share
- square
- swap
- swing
- trade
- vacillate
- be equivalent
- feel in return
- give-and-take
- make up for
- return the compliment
- scratch one's back
- serve out
- tit for tat
- amend
- fix
- improve
- redress
- remedy
- straighten out
- adjust
- debug
- doctor
- emend
- launder
- mend
- reform
- repair
- revise
- right
- scrub
- square
- clean up
- clean up act
- dial back
- fix up
- go over
- make good
- make up for
- pick up
- put right
- recalibrate
- shape up
- straighten up
- turn things around
- amend
- correct
- counteract
- even out
- mend
- neutralize
- regulate
- remedy
- restore
- vindicate
- adjust
- annul
- balance
- cancel
- compensate
- countercheck
- ease
- frustrate
- negate
- negative
- recompense
- reform
- relieve
- repair
- revise
- square
- dial back
- make amends
- make reparation
- make restitution
- make up for
- pay for
- put right
- recalibrate
- turn around
- turn over new leaf
- turn things around
antonyms for pay one's dues
MOST RELEVANT
- discourage
- dissuade
- fail
- forfeit
- give
- lose
- miss
- pass
- spend
- surrender
- yield
- give in
- neglect
- cost
- throw away
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use pay one's dues in a sentence
Now, on my first day here, you pay me back for what I did then—as if it needed paying back!
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSON“We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,” said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSCondillac after the marquis's death had refused to pay tithes to Mother Church and has flouted and insulted the Bishop.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIOf course, newly acquired Ferns will pay for extra attention in the way of watering until they have secured a proper roothold.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINIn these enlightened days no man is imprisoned for owing money, but only because he does not pay it when told to do so.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLBut she was young enough and pretty enough to pay little heed to pose or background.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThen, you know, she had no right to play in the Rooms again; she was supposed to pay her hotel bill, and leave Monte Carlo.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONHe would fear what he did not understand, and he would bow down and pay homage to what he feared.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDOne day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONI should pay a capable secretary like you—knowing several languages and all that—say forty dollars a week.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONWORDS RELATED TO PAY ONE'S DUES
- acquire
- attain
- be gainfully employed
- be in line for
- bring home
- bring home the bacon
- bring home the groceries
- bring in
- clean up
- clear
- collect
- consummate
- cop
- derive
- draw
- effect
- gain
- gather
- get
- gross
- hustle
- make
- make fast buck
- make it big
- net
- obtain
- pay one's dues
- perform
- pick up
- procure
- profit
- pull
- pull down
- rate
- realize
- reap
- receive
- scare up
- score
- scrape together
- secure
- snag
- sock
- turn
- win
- wrangle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.