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pay

[pey] / peɪ /




VERB
be advantageous
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STRONGEST
WEAK
VERB
make amends
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Meatpackers have long turned to immigrants to keep plants running, especially in Midwestern towns lacking enough workers for the often labor-intensive jobs, which typically pay between $20 and $30 an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal

At 100 months, the monthly payment would drop to about $600, and the borrower would pay more than $11,000 in interest.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those efforts saved money that would have been used to pay for human voice talent and hire a traditional market research firm, Serrano said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cyclone struck as Sri Lanka was emerging from its worst-ever economic meltdown in 2022, when it ran out of foreign exchange reserves to pay for essential imports such as food, fuel and medicines.

From Barron's

Software stocks have taken a beating in recent months amid some skepticism in the market over whether AI investments will pay off—or perhaps that AI itself will eventually make application software obsolete.

From Barron's