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Related topics: Business, Wages
pay1 /peɪ/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp paid /peɪd/)
1  give money 付錢 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]PAY FOR to give someone money for something you buy or for a service 付款；付錢給〔某人〕
How would you like to pay?
你想怎麽付款？
pay for
Mum paid for my driving lessons.
媽媽支付了我駕駛課的學費。
pay (in) cash
You’d get a discount for paying cash.
現金付款有折扣。
pay by cheque/credit card
Can I pay by credit card?
我可以用信用卡付款嗎？
pay somebody for something
He didn’t even offer to pay me for the ticket.
他甚至沒有提出要給我買票的錢。
pay somebody to do something
Ray paid some kids to wash the car.
雷花錢僱了一些孩子洗車。
pay somebody something
I paid him $5 to cut the grass.
我付給他5美元叫他割草。
pay (somebody) in dollars/euros etc
He wanted to be paid in dollars.
他想收取美元。
5 GRAMMAR 語法
The object of pay can be the person you give money to or the amount of money you give. pay 的賓語可以是支付的對象,或支付的數目
I’ll pay you in advance.
我會預先付款給你。
Do not use pay followed directly by a noun referring to the thing you are buying. Use pay (an amount of money) for something. 不要在pay後面直接跟你要買的東西,要用pay for sth 的形式 ，其中 pay 後可以跟一定數量的 錢
I’ve already paid £700.
我已經付了700英鎊。
I’ll pay for the tickets.
我來買票。
I paid £100 for this jacket.
我花了100英鎊買這件夾克衫。
n GRAMMAR: Patterns with pay
You pay an amount or you pay a person:
We paid $700.
Pay the delivery man.
You pay for something that you buy:
I’ll pay for the tickets.
我來買票。
✗Don’t say: I’ll pay the tickets.
You pay an amount or a person for something that you buy:
I paid £100 for this jacket.
我花了100英鎊買這件夾克衫。
She paid me for the drinks.
You pay someone an amount:
They paid the owner €3,000.
You pay in a type of money:
Can I pay in euros?
You pay by a particular method:
You can pay by credit card.
我可以用信用卡付款嗎？
2  bill/tax/rent 賬單/稅/租金 [transitiveT]BPAY FOR to pay money that you owe to a person, company etc 償還；交付；繳納
I forgot to pay the gas bill!
我忘記交煤氣費了！
You pay tax at the basic rate.
你按基本稅率交稅。
Is it okay if I pay you what I owe you next week?
我欠你的錢下周還行嗎？
3  wage/salary 工資/薪金 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BEW to give someone money for the job they do 付酬（給）
How much do they pay you?
他們付給你多少報酬？
pay somebody $100 a day/£200 a week etc
They’re only paid about £4 an hour.
他們每小時的報酬只有4英鎊左右。
Some lawyers get paid over $400 an hour.
有些律師每小時收費超過400美元。
be paid weekly/monthly (also get paid weekly/monthly) 我們每星期五領工資。
We get paid weekly on Fridays.
我們每星期五領工資。
well/badly/poorly paid
Many of the workers are very badly paid.
那些工人中有很多人工資非常低。
paid work (=work you are paid to do) 有償工作
paid holiday/leave (=time when you are not working but are still paid) 帶薪假期
4  pay attention (to somebody/something) ATTENTIONto watch, listen to, or think about someone or something carefully （對某人/某事）注意
I’m sorry, I wasn’t paying attention to what you were saying.
對不起，我沒有仔細聽你說的話。
They paid no attention to (=ignored) him.
他們不理會他。
Examples from the Corpus
pay attention (to somebody/something)• I wish you'd learn to pay attention.• Until you start paying attention, that is.• Feminists must pay attention to beliefs about male and female speech, because prejudice is often more powerful than fact.• Organizations in this environment must pay attention to flexibility, quality and asset utilization to remain competitive.• However, the candidate's response can be very revealing and interviewers should pay attention to it.• All I do is pay attention to my body.• Invariably, no one paid attention to them.• I don't think she was paying any attention to what I was saying.• And there they sat without frames, naked in the heat of high noon, waiting to be paid attention to.
5  legal cost 法律要求的費用 [transitiveT] to give money to someone because you are ordered to by a court as part of a legal case 繳納〔法庭要求支付的費用〕
She had to pay a £35 fine for speeding.
她必須繳納35英鎊超速罰款。
pay (something in) compensation/damages (=give someone money because you have done something against them) 支付（…）賠償金/損害賠償金
The company were forced to pay £5,000 in compensation.
那家公司被迫支付了5,000英鎊賠償金。
Martins was ordered to pay court costs of £1,500.
馬丁斯被勒令支付1,500英鎊訴訟費。
6  say STH good 說好話 [transitiveT] to say something good or polite about or to someone 表揚；問候
The minister paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.
部長表揚了應急服務部門的工作。
I came by to pay my respects (=visit or send a polite greeting to someone) to Mrs Owens.
我來拜訪歐文斯夫人。
I was just trying to pay her a compliment.
我正想誇獎她。
7  good result 好的結果 [intransitiveI]ADVANTAGE if a particular action pays, it brings a good result or advantage for you 合算，值得；有利，有好處
Crime doesn’t pay.
犯罪不會有好結果。
It pays to get some professional advice before you make a decision.
作決定之前征求一些專業性建議是有好處的。
It would pay you to ask if there are any jobs going at the London office.
問一下倫敦分公司是否有職位空缺對你有好處。
Getting some qualifications now will pay dividends (=bring a lot of advantages) in the long term.
長遠來看，現在取得一些資格對將來有好處。
8  profit 利潤 [intransitiveI]PROFIT if a shop or business pays, it makes a profit 〔商店或公司〕赢利，有收益
If the pub doesn’t start to pay, we’ll have to sell it.
如果這家酒館還沒有開始赢利，我們將不得不把它賣掉。
The farm just manages to pay its way (=make as much profit as it costs to run).
那家農場僅能維持收支平衡。
9  pay the penalty/price BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSto experience something unpleasant because you have done something wrong, made a mistake etc 〔因犯錯誤等而〕吃苦頭/付出代價
pay the penalty/price for (doing) something
Williams is now paying the price for his early mistakes.
威廉斯現在正爲以前犯下的錯誤付出代價。
Examples from the Corpus
pay the penalty/price• She makes plenty of money, but there's a high price to pay in terms of long hours.• He warned us that we would pay the price.• Now ordinary people will pay the price, as inflation eats further into fixed incomes and economic growth stagnates.• The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.• It started out with all the wrong assumptions about users and their habits and has paid the price in subscriber unrest.• With data filtering one pays the price of decreasing the effective library redundancy and increasing the number of hybridisations.• He had paid the price of surrendering his loyalty to Jeffries-stag-nation, nostalgia, bitterness.• But I had been caught, well and truly, and had paid the price, time and time again.
10  pay (somebody) a call/visit VISITto visit a person or place 拜訪（某人）；參觀（某地）
I decided to pay my folks a visit.
我決定去看望一下父母親。
pay (somebody) a call/visit to
If you have time, pay a visit to the City Art Gallery.
如果你有時間，去參觀一下市美術館。
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pay (somebody) a call/visit• Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.• Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.• Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.• They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.• The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.• No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.• I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.• Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
11  put paid to something British EnglishBrE to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something 使某事落空，破壞某事的計劃
Bad exam results put paid to his hopes of a university place.
糟糕的考試成績讓他上大學的希望破滅了。
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put paid to something• This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.• Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.• It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.• Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.• People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.• But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.• But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.• Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
12  be punished 受到懲罰 [intransitiveI] to suffer or be punished for something you have done wrong 付出代價；遭受懲罰
I’ll make him pay!
我要讓他付出代價！
pay for
They paid dearly for their mistakes.
他們爲自己的錯誤付出了巨大的代價。
13  pay your way PAY FORto pay for everything that you want without having to depend on anyone else for money 自食其力，經濟上獨立
Sofia worked to pay her way through college.
索菲娅自食其力讀完了大學。
Examples from the Corpus
pay your way• But, in spite of the considerable effort and investment, it has for many years failed to pay its way.• His father is paying his way.• If education postpones such dependency it will have paid its way.• It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way.• It wasn't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way.• Finally, I offered to become an air hostess to pay my way, and this time, received an immediate reply.• They either pay their way, or they go.• Pfeiffer worked as a shipping clerk to pay his way through college.• Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.
14  pay for itself SAVE MONEYif something you buy pays for itself, the money it saves over a period of time is as much as the product cost to buy 夠本，收益與成本相當
A new boiler would pay for itself within two years.
一台新鍋爐用兩年就夠本了。
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pay for itself• Installing solar film on the windows will pay for itself.• Fab 25 needs more strong high-volume chips to pay for itself.• Growth needs to pay for itself.• How long for his addition to pay for itself?• Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself.• Investment in an agency, branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business.• At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months.• But I think I can say that each machine has paid for itself, one way or another.• Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms.
15  the devil/hell to pay used to say that someone will be in a lot of trouble about something 大麻煩
If the boss finds out you were late again, there’s going to be hell to pay.
如果老板發現你又遲到，你可要遭殃了。
16. pay through the nose (for something) spokenPAY FOR to pay much more for something than it is really worth （爲某物）付費過高；（爲某事）花費過大的代價
Examples from the Corpus
pay through the nose (for something)• The message is that the government will cut a deal with any threatened industry willing to pay through the nose.• But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?• They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it.• That doesn't mean you have to pay through the nose for the privilege of an overdraft, however.• Many people end up paying through the nose for their car insurance policies.• Catherine, paying through the nose to search for fun and relaxation.
17. somebody has paid their debt to society used to say that someone who has done something illegal has been fully punished for it 某人〔指違法者〕已受到應有的懲罰
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somebody has paid their debt to society• After 20 years in jail, Murray feels he has paid his debt to society.
18. pay court (to somebody) old-fashioned to treat someone, especially a woman, carefully and with respect, so that they will like you or help you （向某人）大獻殷勤，討好（某人）〔尤指女人〕
19. he who pays the piper calls the tune old-fashioned used to say that the person who gives the money for something can decide how it will be used 誰花錢誰說了算
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he who pays the piper calls the tune• Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
n20. pay it forward to do something nice for someone because someone else did something nice for you
→ pay lip service to at lip service, → pay your dues at due3(2)
 COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1: to give someone money for something you buy or for a service 付款；付錢給〔某人〕
nphrases
pay £10/$50 etc
I only paid ten pounds for it.
pay (in) cash
You have to pay in cash for the tickets.
pay by cheque
I filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.
pay by credit card
The hotel does not charge more if you pay by credit card.
pay in dollars/euros etc
American exporters want to be paid in dollars.
adverbs
pay handsomely (=pay a lot of money) 付出 （大筆款項）
nCustomers are willing to pay handsomely for anti-ageing cosmetic products.
 THESAURUS
pay to give someone money for something you are buying from them, or a service they are providing 付費；付酬
I paid a lot of money for that computer.
買那台電腦我花了不少錢。
You have to pay to park your car.
停車得付費。
meet the cost of something to pay for something for someone else, or to provide the money needed to do something 爲别人[某物]付錢
We will meet the cost of your travelling expenses.
我們會支付你的差旅費。
nThe cost will be met from public donations.
foot the bill to pay for something for someone else, especially when you do not want to, or do not think that you should 爲某人付錢〔尤指你不願意或認爲你不該付的情況〕
As usual, the taxpayer will have to foot the bill.
還是老樣子,納稅人要爲此買單了。
pick up the tab informal to pay for something 付賬,買單
My company will pick up the tab for all moving costs.
我公司要爲所有的搬運費買單。
fork out/shell out informal to pay a lot of money for something because you have to and not because you want to 不得不支付
He had to fork out £500 to get his car fixed.
他只得花500英鎊把車修好。
nFans are having to shell out roughly $65 per seat for football games.
settle the bill to pay the bill after eating a meal, staying in a hotel etc 〔用餐、住酒店等之後〕付款,結賬
She went down to the hotel lobby to settle the bill.
她下樓到酒店大堂結賬。
give especially spoken to pay a particular amount of money for something – used especially when saying how much you are willing to pay 付款,支付〔尤指願意付多少錢〕
How much will you give me for the car?
買這輛車你打算付我多少錢？
I’ll give you $50 for the lot (=for everything).
這些一起算,我給你50美元。
something is on somebody spoken used when saying that someone else will pay for your meal, drinks etc 某物由某人買單[付錢]
Order whatever you like – this is on me!
随便點,我付賬。
The drinks are on the house (=the bar, restaurant etc will let you have them for free).
酒水飲料由店裏請客。
nPut your money away – the drinks are on us.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: to give someone money for the job they do 付酬（給）
phrases
pay somebody £200 a week/$100 a day etc
The cleaners are paid £5 an hour.
be paid by the hour/day/week
I was working on a building site, being paid by the hour.
adverbs
be paid weekly/monthly
Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.
well-paid
Teachers here are well-paid.
highly-paid
a highly-paid football player
badly-paid/poorly-paid
For a long time I didn’t realise how badly-paid and overworked I was.
 PHRASAL VERBS
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pay• She paid $5,000 for three nights in a hotel in New York City.• Our fixed rate savings account currently pays 6.5% interest.• Several fans tried to get in without paying.• Although both of them worked hard, they couldn't make the business pay.• If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay.• Please pay at the desk.• Budgeting loans are paid back by weekly deductions from benefit.• So if a premium is paid before 6 April 1993, it may be treated as having been paid during 1990/91.• Pay by credit card at least ten days before departure.• She drank far too much at the party and paid dearly for it the next day.• It showed revenue of A $ 641. 1 million and paid dividends of 32 cents a share in the year.• Miller refused to testify and paid for it by being labelled a communist.• I like your new car - how much did you pay for it?• My company paid for me to go to evening classes.• She sent money to pay for my education.• Have you paid for the tickets?• She says she wouldn't pay it.• Of course you have to pay more if you want to travel in the summer.• If you earn below $6000, you pay no income tax.• Bartending can pay pretty well.• If you pay someone to work in your house, you have to pay Social Security taxes on the wages.• He always paid the banks, and he paid all other incontestable bills on time.• Because the insurance company was paying the defendant's costs, the contest would be unequal.• Have you paid the rent yet?• I need £4.50 to pay the window cleaner.• Bribes were paid to railroad officials, of course, but other towns paid bigger ones.• Jobs in areas that use mathematical skills, such as computer programming, tend to pay well.• Did she pay you for taking care of her kids?
pay for• The Roald Dahl Foundation has provided funds to pay for a paediatric epilepsy nurse at the unit.• Let me pay for dinner this time.• This year I have paid for it.• People who sell drugs to our children should pay dearly for it.• And, unlike federal employees, they have no guarantee of pay for lost time.• And £22,730 will be used to help pay for repairs to bridge steps down to the riverside at Llangollen.• But getting health insurers to pay for the promised sessions is, in many cases, a losing struggle.• The system is overwhelmed by too many retirees and not enough younger workers to pay for their benefits.• A baseball player doesn't have to pay for transport.• I've spent the last three years in jail. I tell you, I've paid for what I did.
pay ... bill• I suppose I began my first little businesses because my parents needed me to help pay the bills.• Once home, Shulman went inside while Kantor paid the bill.• Ordinary households at the bottom of the economic food chain were left to pay the bill.• They only escaped with about twenty five pounds, money which Mrs Selman had been saving to pay bills.• As a result, the people whose financial position makes it easiest to pay bills actually get the lowest-cost credit.• See who pays the bills or does a goddamn single thing for any one of you.• The obligation on the client of a solicitor is to pay the bill presented.• She paid her bill to the efficient receptionist and left the hospital.
get paid• Did the company responsible get paid?• At the other end of the business, the actual drivers get paid a pittance out of what is left over.• The Grovel Industry, where you get paid danger money because it's so insecure.• I work for food.' I got paid for free.• That's what you get paid for, isn't it?• I told you I get paid for what I do.• Today, he is expected to get paid like one.• Coors will also get paid more for its waste beer under the new contract, he said.
pay ... fine• A top adviser to the House leadership said Gingrich is quietly canvassing members about how to pay the fine.• In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine.• It was either off the train or pay the fine.• Under his successors, it was also exploited as a source of revenue by allowing men to pay a fine for exemption.• Cole was not asked directly whether the speaker would have to pay the fine himself.• It was like a man convicted of forgery paying his fine with a dud £50 note.
paid tribute to• Read in studio A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague.• John Motum, presenting his trophy, paid tribute to both the players and the coaches.• Friends paid tribute to Herrera's courage.• Dole paid tribute to Reagan, the two-term president who gained popularity as an anti-government politician in the 1980s.• Today their station commander paid tribute to the men.• The new Bishop also paid tribute to the Ministry of Bishop Harris over the past 14 years.• In declaring the factory open, paid tribute to the teamwork which went into the design and construction of the plant.• Fenner Brockway paid tribute to the understanding and respect for individual conscience shown by the state.• He rightly paid tribute to the West Midlands police for what they have done in this process.
It pays to• If you are willing to pay the difference in price there is usually even more choice. It pays to inquire.
pay its way• But today, guardians of the land are finding it rather more difficult to make sure the estate pays its way.• But, in spite of the considerable effort and investment, it has for many years failed to pay its way.• Government decided that the whole of the railway freight business should pay its way.• If education postpones such dependency it will have paid its way.• Britain was no longer paying its way in the world.• Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.
make ... pay• This makes paying attention to a task in a busy schoolroom very difficult.• They should be made to pay for cleaning it up.• This includes a reminder that any person caught swearing must be made to pay for it.• Suddenly, I want to punish him, to make him pay for my invisibility.• How it could have been made to pay is a mystery.• Enquiries should be made from the pay kiosk or general office.• Abolish the present inheritance tax and make recipients pay on gifts above a certain band as income.
Related topics: Wages
pay2 ●●● S1 W2 noun [uncountableU]
1  BEWmoney that you are given for doing your job 工資，薪金
Staff have been working without pay for the last month.
上個月員工們幹活沒拿到工資。
The tax is deducted from your pay every week.
這項稅收每星期從你薪水中扣。
He was suspended on full pay until the hearing.
聆訊之前他停職留薪。
► see thesaurus at salary
2  in the pay of somebody writtenWORK FOR somebody someone who is in someone else’s pay is working for them, often secretly 〔多指秘密地〕受僱於某人的
an informer in the pay of the police
一名警方僱用的線人
Examples from the Corpus
in the pay of somebody• Look, a lot of the police are in the pay of the big villains.• Himself is right: half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob.• The study will analyse difference in the pay of individuals in the public and private sectors of the economy.• I am not in the pay of any man, Mr Advocate.• If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.• Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.• Several cops were in the pay of Colombian drug lords.• This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors: they were in the pay of the Romans.
 COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + pay
low 低的
Nurses often work long hours for relatively low pay.
護士往往工作時間長,而工資相對較低。
good 相當高的
The work was steady and the pay was pretty good.
這工作穩定,薪水相當不錯。
higher/better 更高的
Workers demanded higher pay.
工人要求提高工資。
equal pay (=the same pay for the same type of work) 平等的工資
The women at the factory went on strike for equal pay.
這家工廠的女工爲爭取同工同酬而舉行罷工。
basic pay British EnglishBrE, base pay American EnglishAmE (=not including overtime pay or bonuses) 底薪
nThe basic pay is so low you end up doing lots of overtime.
take-home pay (=after tax etc has been taken away) 稅後工資
nTheir average take-home pay is just £120.
overtime pay (=for extra hours that you work) 加班工資
nTheir bosses had to approve any overtime pay.
holiday pay British EnglishBrE, vacation pay American EnglishAmE (=pay when you are on holiday) 休假工資
nServicemen and women get no holiday pay, no overtime, no weekends off.
sick pay (=pay when you are ill) 病假工資
nAs a self-employed person, you get no sick pay or benefits.
maternity pay (=pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby) 産假工資
nIf you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.
redundancy pay British EnglishBrE, severance pay American EnglishAmE (=pay when there is no longer a job for you) 裁員補償金
nWe invested our redundancy pay in a new business venture.
full pay 全額工資,全薪
nThey were immediately suspended on full pay pending a full inquiry.
half pay 半薪
nIn 1822 he retired from the army as captain on half pay.
pay + NOUN
a pay increase 加薪
Teachers will be awarded a 6% pay increase this year.
今年教師將得到6%的加薪作爲獎勵。
a pay rise British EnglishBrE, pay raise American EnglishAmE 加薪
If you get promoted, will you get a pay rise?
如果你升職了,會漲工資嗎？
a pay cut 減薪
Staff were asked to take a 10% pay cut.
員工被要求接受10%的減薪。
a rate of pay (also a pay rate) (=the amount paid every hour, week etc) 工資率
Many workers in the catering industry are on low rates of pay.
飲食服務業的許多員工工資率較低。
a pay cheque British EnglishBrE, a paycheck American EnglishAmE (=the money you earn every week or month) 工資,薪金
nStretching your money until the next pay cheque arrives often becomes difficult.
a pay freeze (=when no one’s pay is increased) 工資凍結
nMinisters have approved a public sector pay freeze.
a pay claim British EnglishBrE (=official request for more pay) 加薪要求
nThe miners voted for strike action in support of their pay claim.
a pay dispute (=disagreement between an employer and employees about pay) 工資糾紛
nMany flights were cancelled because of a pilots’ pay dispute.
npay and conditions (=the conditions in which people work and the pay they get)
The unions are demanding better pay and conditions.
COMMON ERRORSDon’t say ‘the salary pay’. Just say the pay.
不要說 ‘the salary pay’. 而只需說 the pay.
n THESAURUS
income money that you receive from working, investments etc
families on a low income
salary the pay that professional people such as teachers or lawyers earn every year
a salary of $65,000 a year
wages the pay that someone earns every hour or every week
Her wages barely cover the rent.
bonus money added to someone’s pay, as a reward for good work or as a reward when the company does well
The company pays an attendance bonus – if you go 30 days without being late or absent, you get the bonus.
earnings all the money that you earn by working
In a good year, a bonus can double an executive’s earnings.
Examples from the Corpus
pay• The new chief executive acknowledged he would be taking a pay cut.• Most of all, they need equal pay and comparable worth.• To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.• Staff unions and many councillors last year attacked large pay increases for senior staff in all departments.• The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay.• Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.• If entitlements are exceeded, the system will issue the relevant warning message and stop pay.• For four years running, the Government's teachers' pay committee has reported that teachers' morale has never been lower.• "What's the pay?" "About $10 an hour."• For most fast-food workers, the pay is around $5 an hour.• If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.
From Longman Business Dictionary
paypay1 /peɪ/ noun [uncountableU]
the money someone receives for the job they do
She got the job, but it meant a big pay cut.
an increase in hourly pay
All I want is a full day’s work for a full day’s pay.
Thebasic pay (=the usual amount, without any extra) is so low you end up putting in overtime.
→ see also equal pay
→ back pay → callback pay → differential pay → free pay → holiday pay → maternity pay → paternity pay → performance-related pay → premium pay → reporting pay → sick pay → strike pay → take-home pay → vacation pay
paypay2 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp paid)
1[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to give a person or company money for a product or service they have supplied
How much can you afford to pay?
GM won’t pay a Christmas bonus to salaried employees next year.
pay for
Farmers desperately need hard credit to pay for seed and fertilizer.
The proportion of shoppers willing to pay more for special brands has fallen sharply.
pay somebody for something
United has agreed to pay Pan Am $290 million for its London routes.
2pay for itself if something you buy pays for itself, the money it saves over a period of time is as much as it cost
Investment in energy efficiency will pay for itself in two years due to the amount of fuel saved.
3pay its wayCOMMERCE if a machine or business activity pays its way, it makes more money than it costs to run
The SBS television channel is permitted to run limited advertising to help pay its way.
4pay through the nose (for something) informal to pay much more for something than it is really worth
Finance people have paid through the nose for consultants in recent years.
5[transitiveT]FINANCE to give a person or company money you owe them
Celutel has been trying to raise cash topay debt.
The association has set up the loan fund to help its members pay fines.
Shoppers in Newfoundlandpay 19%tax on purchases of goods and services.
6[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to give someone money for the job they do
Cane cutters here are paid about $1.50 per ton.
attempts by management not to pay employees overtime
7[transitiveT]FINANCE if investments pay a particular amount of money or rate of interest, the investors who own them will receive that amount of profit
Our Gold Account is currently paying a 5.3%interest rate.
All the current junk bonds pay cash interest.
Under the current deal, BBDO stock is paying about 10 times last year’s earnings.
8[intransitiveI]COMMERCE if a shop or business pays, it makes a profit
If the Chinese can ship this equipment 12,000 miles, how is it that British industry cannot make it pay?
→ pay somebody/something ↔ back
→ pay down something
→ pay something in
→ pay off
→ pay something ↔ out
→ pay up
Origin pay1
(1100-1200) Old French paier, from Latin pacere “to make calm or peaceful”, from pax; → PEACE

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