Pay Up

Definition: Pay Up

Pay Up

Verb

1. Cancel or discharge a debt; "pay up, please!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pay Up

Payment

Discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts.

Crosswords: Pay Up

Maybe now they'll pay up. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Increase your take-home pay up to 40% : how to turn your job into your own corporation (reference)

• Pay Up and Play the Game : Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

India

However, with the government, as part of the package agreeing to pay up 5 percent of the interest, the effective interest rates come to only 9-11 percent. (references)

Political Economy

PERU

The importer must pay up to one percent of the FOB value of the goods to cover the cost of the inspection. (references)

Trade

Ecuador

Companies established in the Free Trade Zone may develop industrial or commercial activities and must pay up to a 2% fee of their investment to the National Council of Free Trade Zones in order to operate in the Free Trade Zone. (references)

Worker Rights

Slovak Republic

For state enterprises, the law requires overtime pay up to a maximum of 8 hours per week, and 150 hours per year, and provides 5 weeks of annual leave. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

paguaj (buy, defray, disburse, fee, foot, fork out, give, meet, pay, pay out, plank, reckon, recompense, redeem, remunerate, render, repay, reward, settle), laj (bathe, clear, do, elutriate, flush, liquidate, rinse out, scour, settle, sponge, take out, wash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изплащам (allow, clear, disburse, discharge, expiate, lift, liquidate, meet, pay, pay away, pay out, repay, settle, sink, take up). (various references)

Czech

splatit (clear, clear off, redeem, refund, repay, return). (various references)

French

verser des capitaux (pay up capital/to). (various references)

German

löhnen (cough up, shell out), blechen (cough up, fork out). (various references)

Greek 

ξεχρεώνω, ξοφλώ (pay off, settle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלם �"כל (pay off), ל�'מור עם חובות. (various references)

Hungarian

visszafizet (pay back, reimburse, repay, retaliate, retort, to acquit, to pay back, to recompense, to refund, to reimburse, to repay). (various references)

Italian

pagare (defray, deposit, numbers, pay, pick up, repay, to pay). (various references)

Manx

eeaghyn y ghlenney, eeaghyn y eeck. (various references)

Pig Latin

aypay upay

Portuguese

pagar (acquit, defray, give, pay, pay out, remunerate, repay, requite, retort, return, reward, rip up, satisfy, settle, shell out, spend, to pay, unrip), liquidar (acquit, close out, defray, despatch, dispatch, knock off, liquidate, pay, pay down, pay off, rub out, satisfy, sell out, settle). (various references)

Romanian

plãti la timp, lichida (abolish, clear, end, liquidate). (various references)

Russian 

выплачивать сполна. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

platiti (defray, foot, pay, remunerate), uplatiti (pay, pay in). (various references)

Spanish

pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, divvy, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, make good, meet, pay, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay out, pay over, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay). (various references)

Swedish

betala (answer, clear, discharge, liquidate, pay, pick up the bill, quit, settle, shell out). (various references)

Turkish

tasfiye etmek (clear up, close out, depurate, houseclean, liquidate, purge, revive, sell off, sell out, try out, wind up), tamamen ödemek (pay off, pay scot and lot). (various references)

Ukrainian

виплачувати сповна. (various references)

reddo, refero. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pupa, yaup.

-2 letters: pap, pay, pup, pya, yap, yup.

-3 letters: ay, pa, up, ya.

+2 letters: papyrus, unhappy.

+3 letters: platypus, pulpally, pupilary.

+4 letters: papyruses, popularly, pupillary, unhappily.

+5 letters: platypuses, popularity, propylaeum, supposably.