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Pay Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill. | | 2. | to give over (a certain amount of money) in exchange for something: He paid twenty dollars for the shirt. | | 3. | to transfer money as compensation or recompense for work done or services rendered; to satisfy the claims of (a person, organization, etc.), as by giving money due: He paid me for my work. | | 4. | to defray (cost or expense). | | 5. | to give compensation for. | | 6. | to yield a recompense or return to; be profitable to: Your training will pay you well in the future. | | 7. | to yield as a return: The stock paid six percent last year. | | 8. | to requite, as for good, harm, or an offense: How can I pay her for her kindness and generosity? | | 9. | to give or render (attention, respects, compliments, etc.), as if due or fitting. | | 10. | to make (a call, visit, etc.). | | 11. | to suffer in retribution; undergo: You'll pay the penalty for your stubbornness! | | 12. | Nautical. to let (a ship) fall off to leeward. | –verb (used without object) | 13. | to transfer money, goods, etc., as in making a purchase or settling a debt. | | 14. | to discharge a debt or obligation. | | 15. | to yield a return, profit, or advantage; be worthwhile: It pays to be courteous. | | 16. | to give compensation, as for damage or loss sustained. | | 17. | to suffer or be punished for something: The murderer paid with his life. | –noun | 18. | the act of paying or being paid; payment. | | 19. | wages, salary, or a stipend. | | 20. | a person with reference to solvency or reputation for meeting obligations: The bank regards him as good pay. | | 21. | paid employment: in the pay of the enemy. | | 22. | reward or punishment; requital. | | 23. | a rock stratum from which petroleum is obtained. | –adjective | 24. | requiring subscribed or monthly payment for use or service: pay television. | | 25. | operable or accessible on deposit of a coin or coins: a pay toilet. | | 26. | of or pertaining to payment. | —Verb phrases | 27. | pay down, | a. | to pay (part of the total price) at the time of purchase, with the promise to pay the balance in installments: On this plan you pay only ten percent down. | | b. | to pay off or back; amortize: The company's debt is being paid down rapidly. | | | 28. | pay for, to suffer or be punished for: to pay for one's sins. | | 29. | pay off, | a. | to pay (someone) everything that is due that person, esp. to do so and discharge from one's employ. | | b. | to pay (a debt) in full. | | d. | to retaliate upon or punish. | | e. | Nautical. to fall off to leeward. | | f. | to result in success or failure: The risk paid off handsomely. | | | 30. | pay out, | a. | to distribute (money, wages, etc.); disburse. | | b. | to get revenge upon for an injury; punish. | | c. | to let out (a rope) by slackening. | | | 31. | pay up, | b. | to pay on demand: The gangsters used threats of violence to force the shopkeepers to pay up. | | —Idioms | 32. | pay as you go, | a. | to pay for (goods, services, etc.) at the time of purchase, as opposed to buying on credit. | | b. | to spend no more than income permits; keep out of debt. | | c. | to pay income tax by regular deductions from one's salary or wages. | | | 33. | pay back, | a. | to repay or return: to pay back a loan. | | b. | to retaliate against or punish: She paid us back by refusing the invitation. | | | 34. | pay one's or its way, | a. | to pay one's portion of shared expenses. | | b. | to yield a return on one's investment sufficient to repay one's expenses: It will take time for the restaurant to begin paying its way. | | | From Dictionary
Off Definition–adverb | 1. | so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off. | | 2. | so as to be no longer covering or enclosing: to take a hat off; to take the wrapping off. | | 3. | away from a place: to run off; to look off toward the west. | | 4. | away from a path, course, etc.; aside: This road branches off to Grove City. | | 5. | so as to be away or on one's way: to start off early; to cast off. | | 6. | away from what is considered normal, regular, standard, or the like: to go off on a tangent. | | 7. | from a charge or price: He took 10 percent off for all cash purchases. | | 8. | at a distance in space or future time: to back off a few feet; Summer is only a week off. | | 9. | out of operation or effective existence: Turn the lights off. | | 10. | into operation or action: The alarm goes off at noon. | | 11. | so as to interrupt continuity or cause discontinuance: Negotiations have been broken off. | | 12.
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| in absence from work, service, a job, etc.: two days off at Christmas. | | 13. | completely; utterly: to kill off all the inhabitants. | | 14. | with prompt or ready performance: to dash a letter off. | | 15. | to fulfillment, or into execution or effect: The contest came off on the appointed day. | | 16. | into nonexistence or nothingness: My headache passed off soon. | | 17. | so as to be delineated, divided, or apportioned: Mark it off into equal parts. | | 18. | away from a state of consciousness: I must have dozed off. | | 19. | Nautical. away from the land, a ship, the wind, etc. | –preposition | 20. | so as no longer to be supported by, attached to, on, resting on, or unified with: Take your feet off the table! Break a piece of bread off the loaf. | | 21. | deviating from: off balance; off course. | | 22. | below or less than the usual or expected level or standard: 20 percent off the marked price; I was off my golf game. | | 23. | away, disengaged, or resting from: to be off duty on Tuesdays. | | 24. | Informal. refraining or abstaining from; denying oneself the pleasure, company, practice, etc., of: He's off gambling. | | 25. | away from; apart or distant from: a village off the main road. | | 26. | leading into or away from: an alley off 12th Street. | | 27. | not fixed on or directed toward, as the gaze, eyes, etc.: Their eyes weren't off the king for a moment. | | 28. | Informal. from (a specified source): I bought it off a street vendor. | | 29. | from or of, indicating material or component parts: to lunch off cheese and fruit. | | 30. | from or by such means or use of: living off an inheritance; living off his parents. | | 31. | Nautical. at some distance to seaward of: off Cape Hatteras. | –adjective | 32. | in error; wrong: You are off on that point. | | 33. | slightly abnormal or not quite sane: He is a little off, but he's really harmless. | | 34. | not up to standard; not so good or satisfactory as usual; inferior or subnormal: a good play full of off moments. | | 35. | no longer in effect, in operation, or in process: The agreement is off. | | 36. | stopped from flowing, as by the closing of a valve: The electricity is off. | | 37. | in a specified state, circumstance, etc.: to be badly off for money. | | 38. | (of time) free from work or duty; nonworking: a pastime for one's off hours. | | 39. | not working at one's usual occupation: We're off Wednesdays during the summer. | | 40. | of less than the ordinary activity, liveliness, or lively interest; slack: an off season in the tourist trade. | | 41. | unlikely; remote; doubtful: on the off chance that we'd find her at home. | | 42. | more distant; farther: the off side of a wall. | | 43. | (of a vehicle, single animal, or pair of animals hitched side by side) of, being, or pertaining to the right as seen from the rider's or driver's viewpoint (opposed to near ): the off horse; the off side. | | 44. | starting on one's way; leaving: I'm off to Europe on Monday. They're off and running in t
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he third race at Aqueduct. | | 45. | lower in price or value; down: Stock prices were off this morning. | | 46. | Nautical. noting one of two like things that is the farther from the shore; seaward: the off side of the ship. | | 47. | Cricket. noting or pertaining to that side of the wicket or of the field opposite that on which the batsman stands. | –noun | 48. | the state or fact of being off. | | 49. | Cricket. the off side. | –verb (used without object) | 50. | to go off or away; leave (used imperatively): Off, and don't come back! | –verb
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(used with object) | 51. | Slang. to kill; slay. | —Verb phrase | 52. | get off on. get (def. 57). | —Idioms | 53. | get it off. get (def. 54). | | 54. | off and on, | a. | Also, on and off. with intervals between; intermittently: to work off and on. | | b. | Nautical. on alternate tacks. | | | 55. | off of, Informal. off: Take your feet off of the table! | | 56. | off with, | a. | take away; remove: Off with those muddy boots before you step into this kitchen! | | b. | cut off: Off with his head! | | | From Dictionary
Bill Definition–noun | 1. | a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out. | | 2. | a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill. | | 3. | Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law. | | 5. | a written or printed public notice or advertisement. | | 6. | any written paper containing a statement of particulars: a bill of expenditures. | | 7. | Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court. | | 8. | Slang. one hundred dollars: The job pays five bills a week. | | 10. | entertainment scheduled for presentation; program: a good bill at the movies. | | 11. | Obsolete. | b. | a written and sealed document. |
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| c. | a written, formal petition. | | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to charge for by bill; send a bill to: The store will bill me. | | 13. | to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of: to bill goods. | | 14. | to advertise by bill or public notice: A new actor was billed for this week. | | 15. | to schedule on a program: The management billed the play for two weeks. | —Idiom | 16. | fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well: As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill. | | From Dictionary
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