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what is a basic definition of pay?
Pay means to give money to someone to settle a debt or obligation. Pay also means to give money in exchange for something. Pay is also a personâs salary or wages. Pay has many other senses as a verb and a noun.
Pay means to settle a bill or a debt, such as paying the check at a restaurant or paying your electric bill. Sometimes you can pay in advance, meaning you pay for the product or service before you receive it. The past tense of the verb pay is paid.
Real-life examples: Homeowners pay their mortgages. Citizens pay taxes to the government. College students often have to pay student loans.
Used in a sentence: I always keep enough money in the bank to pay my rent on time.
Pay also means to give someone money for a product or service.
Real-life examples: A person might pay $20 for some old shirts. A parent may pay a store $50 for a gift for their child. A rich person may pay $5 million for a mansion.
Used in a sentence: She paid the actor $5 for an autographed picture.Â
Pay is also the money a person earns in exchange for their labor. This sense of pay is a synonym of salary or earnings.
Real-life examples: When you have a job, you earn your pay. A doctor has a much higher pay than a teenager working a part-time job. Workers often go on strike or negotiate with the company to try and get a better pay.
Used in a sentence: He may not like his job that much, but he never complains about the pay.
Where does pay come from?
The first records of pay come from around 1150. It ultimately comes from the Medieval Latin pÄcÄre, meaning âto satisfyâ or âto settle (a debt).â
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How is pay used in real life?
Pay is a very common word that is most often used to mean to give money in return for something.
My favorite childhood memory is not having to work to pay bills.
— Wynter_Nomad (@Wynter_Nomad) November 30, 2020
Debating if I should pay $200 to get my phone fixed or just pay $375 to upgrade early đ€
— Asia (@ThisIs_Asiaa) December 1, 2020
I would pay off my credit cards and bump my credit so I can get a new car and a down payment for a mortgage.
— Rebecca (@Rebecca66571046) December 23, 2020
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Is pay used correctly in the following sentence?
She is willing to pay a lot of money for the newest model of smartphone.