| 单词 | pay |
| 释义 | pay pay // verb, noun
■ verb (paid, paid //)
1 [+ obj or no obj] to give sb money for work, goods, services, etc: How much are people willing to pay for your product? Are you paying in cash or by credit card? My company pays well (= pays high salaries). Last year they paid $16m in cash bonuses to staff. I'm paid $100 a day. She is paid by the hour. I don't pay you to sit around all day doing nothing! The service now has about 2.2 million paying customers. Would you mind paying the taxi driver? ⇨ LOW-PAID, PRE-PAY
2 [+ obj] to give sb money that you owe them: We don't have enough money to pay our bills. Have you paid her what you owe her? No dividend has been paid for several years.
3 [no obj] (about a business, etc.) to produce a profit: Training is a growth area-with the right skills you could make it pay. They have turned their website into a paying proposition.
4 [+ obj or no obj] to result in some advantage or profit for sb: It would probably pay you to hire an accountant. ◆ It pays to keep up to date with your work.
IDIOMS
pay dividends to produce great advantages or profits: He insisted that the money invested in e-commerce would pay dividends.
pay for itself (about a new system, sth you have bought, etc.) to save as much money as it cost: The software paid for itself within 90 days.
pay its way (about a business, etc.) to make enough money to pay what it costs to keep it going: Our website is now paying its way.
pay/spend over the odds (BrE) ( to pay more than you would normally expect: The bank paid over the odds to get into the American market. pay through the nose (for sth) ( to pay much too much money for sth: We paid through the nose for the repairs. pay your way to pay for everything yourself without having to rely on anyone else's money: She had to pay her way through college. PHRASAL VERBS pay sb back (sth); pay sth back (to sb) to return money that you borrowed from sb: I'll pay you back next week. You can pay back the loan over a period of three years. The loans might never be paid back. Did he ever pay you back that $100 he owes you? PAYBACK pay down sth (AmE) (Finance ) to reduce the amount of a debt by paying some of the money: The money will be used to pay down their $2.4 bn debt. PAYDOWN HELP NOTE A noun follows down but a pronoun must come between the verb and down. pay sth down (Commerce ) to give an amount of money as the first payment for sth: You can pay $200 down and the rest in 12 monthly instalments. DOWN PAYMENT pay sth in; pay sth into sth to put money into a bank account: I paid in a cheque this morning. I'd like to pay some money into my account. pay off ( (about a plan or an action) to be successful and bring good results: Our efforts to improve quality and speed up delivery have paid off and profits have doubled. It was a risky investment, but the gamble paid off. PAY-OFF pay sb off to pay sb what they have earned and tell them to leave their job: The crew were paid off as soon as the ship docked. PAY-OFF pay sth off to finish paying money owed for sth: We paid off our mortgage after fifteen years. pay out; pay sth out to pay a large amount of money for sth: The company has paid out $1.5 bn in bonuses for the year. PAYOUT pay up to pay all the money that you owe to sb, especially when you do not want to or when the payment is late: I had a hard time getting the insurers to pay up. ■ noun [U] AT-RISK PAY, BASE PAY, BASIC PAY, CALL-IN PAY, CALLBACK PAY, EQUAL PAY, HAZARD PAY, MATERNITY PAY, PATERNITY PAY, PERFORMANCE-RELATED PAY, PREMIUM PAY, PROFIT-RELATED PAY, REPORTING PAY, SICK PAY, STRIKE PAY, TAKE-HOME PAY, TAKE-OR-PAY, VARIABLE PAY the money that sb gets for doing regular work: Her job is hard work, but the pay is good. workers on low pay a pay increase ◆ (BrE) a pay rise ◆ (AmE) a pay raise a 3% pay offer holiday/vacation pay Union leaders are campaigning for better pay and conditions. Some executives have agreed to 17% pay cuts. They plan to increase staff and raise pay levels. ❖ to get/give (sb)/receive pay ◆ good/high/low/poor pay ◆ monthly/weekly pay ◆ full/half pay IDIOMS in the pay of sb/sth working for sb or for an organization, often secretly or dishonestly: The research was done by scientists in the pay of the tobacco industry. |
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