Definition of pay

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Pay (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays..

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Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty..
Reformado :: Reformado (v. t.) An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay..
Bottomry :: Bottomry (n.) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail..
Appay :: Appay (v. t.) To pay; to satisfy or appease.
Declare :: Declare (v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc..
Remunerative :: Remunerative (a.) Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business..
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
Unowed :: Unowed (a.) Not owed; as, to pay money unowed..
Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..
Nonage :: Nonage (n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes..
Superficiary :: Superficiary (n.) One to whom a right of surface occupation is granted; one who pays quitrent for a house built upon another man's ground.
Collect :: Collect (v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes..
Taxpayer :: Taxpayer (n.) One who is assessed and pays a tax.
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..
Payment :: Payment (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return..
Draught :: Draught (n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person..
Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..
Assurance :: Assurance (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death..
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