Pay For

Definition: Pay For

Pay For

Verb

1. Have as a guest; "I invited them to a restaurant".

Synonym: Pay For

Synonym: invite (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Price	Phrase: no penny no paternoster; point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well, just don't expect Oz to pay for the limo. (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) You will buy your weather from me! And by God you'll pay for it. (The Avengers; writing credit: Don MacPherson. Based on the television series by Sydney Newman.) You're going to pay for all the Jedi that you killed today, Dooku. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) It comes with a gold-plated Rolls Royce, as long as you pay for it. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) That's a lot of money to pay for a dame without a head. (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz ; Orson Welles)
Lyrics	You're slowly making me pay for things ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)
Clever	Having your lawyer pay for lunch will be very expensive in the end. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Get What You Pay For (1970)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Making Your Quilting Pay for Itself (reference) Pay for Results: A Practical Guide to Effective Employee Compensation (Taking Control Series) (reference) The Price of Admission: Rethinking How Americans Pay for College (reference) Wall Street Money Machine, Volume 5: Free Stocks: How to Get the Market to Pay for Your Stocks--FREE! (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Iomas Pay For Performance Report (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cartoon depicting long periods at sea on the BLAKE and poor pay for supporting family. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB 281.2 .S37 1881.Credit: Treasures of the Library.		And no overtime pay for me!.Credit: Library of Congress.
	J.A. Johnson and family, Statesville, North Carolina, Route No. 3, picking cotton. He is a sharecropper, works about ten acres, receives half the cotton, must pay for half the fertilizer. Landlord furnishes stock and tools.Credit: Library of Congress.		J.A. Johnson's oldest daughter picking cotton in cotton field, Statesville, North Carolina. He is a sharecropper, works about ten acres, receives half the cotton, must pay for half the fertilizer. Landlord furnishes stock and tools.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Franklin	Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Charles Caleb Colton	To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Hosea Ballou	Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Josh Billings	Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
Muhammad Ali	Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Plato	The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Publilius Syrus	Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
Robert Louis Stevenson	The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
United Nations	1948	Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	Instead of giving the whole reward of learning in one lump, we used to pay for every good answer as it occurred.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	His fokes bured him becaws they got no money to pay for funerls.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Many insurance companies pay for sealants. (references)
		Most people do not have to pay for Part A. (references)
		It may also pay for some of your medicines. (references)
Business		The LFT sets 48 hours as the legal workweek, although with pay for 56 hours. (references)
		If the uninsured populace needs medical attention, they must pay for HCS out of pocket. (references)
		With that come signs of greater willingness to pay for the means to a cleaner environment. (references)
Children	Guinea	Girls often are taken out of school and sent to work to help pay for their brothers' educational expenses. (references)
	Uganda	Although the UPE program makes education more accessible financially, parents still must pay for school supplies and some school costs. (references)
	Bangladesh	Unless a family has money to pay for private service, a mentally ill person can find little treatment in the country. (references)
Civil Liberties	Kyrgyz Republic	The court also ordered seven Asaba journalists also to pay for articles critical of Usubaliev. (references)
	Angola	In some camps, IDP's are required to contribute labor, and coordinators occasionally required IDP's to pay for the materials that go into bricks for constructing structures in the camps. (references)
	Angola	There also were reports that the camp coordinator threatened to deny food aid to camp residents who refused to pay for their water. (references)
Economic History	Norway	Banks are developing mobile wallets so that customers can load, say $100, from their bank accounts on to their cell phones and pay for transactions instantly with the phone. (references)
	Cuba (09/01)	Cuba's precarious economic position is complicated by the high price it must pay for foreign financing. (references)
	Romania	Given the level of damage inflicted by the state sector in the past, sales of several major enterprises could be difficult if the purchasers are forced to pay for clean up of past damage. (references)
Human Rights	Kazakhstan	Training standards and pay for police are very low, and individual law enforcement officials often were supervised poorly. (references)
	Mauritania	If defendants lack the ability to pay for counsel, the court appoints an attorney from a list prepared by the National Order of Lawyers, which provides defense free of charge. (references)
	Dominican Republic	In order to receive edible food, they must pay for it to be brought into the prison. (references)
Minorities	Qatar	They must pay for health care, electricity, water, and education (services that are provided free of charge to citizens) and are not permitted to own property. (references)
	Romania	There was no further information on the ban on Roma in the Iasi County hospital, where Roma who cannot afford to pay for medical treatment and cannot prove that they have medical insurance provided by the State are banned from the hospital. (references)
Political Economy	MEXICO	Prior practice required each importer to pay for a separate certificate, even if importing a product identical to that imported by another importer (this remains true for NOMs issued by government agencies other than Economy). (references)
Political Rights	Honduras	A sixth party, PUEBLO-H, attempted to register a presidential candidate but was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay for the government stationery. (references)
	Malaysia	In December, a Member of Parliament from the opposition Democratic Action Party was suspended without pay for 6 months after publicly criticizing the parliamentary speaker for disallowing discussion concerning corruption in the process of certifying lawyers. (references)
	Bulgaria	Election contestants also had to pay for all appearances in the public broadcasting media, including debates, which effectively limited campaign coverage in the media. (references)
Trade	Morocco	Authority to buy and sell foreign exchange has been delegated to the banking system, which will carry out transactions on presentation of appropriate documentation justifying the transaction such as an invoice to pay for imports. (references)
	Moldova	The documents are: a supplier's price bid; an invoice; a sale/purchase contract; transportation documents (with seals of the exporting country and of transit countries); a commodity insurance contract and insurance policy; data on the importer's accounting; a hard-currency payment order from a bank; a statement of the hard-currency account that was used to pay for the goods; a document proving the goods' acceptance; a contract for the goods sale on the domestic market; and a document for receiving hard currency through an exchange at the hard-currency market. (references)
	Mexico	Most Mexican distributors ask for opening account to pay for imported goods. (references)
Travel	Albania	Refusing to allow a person to pay for you when you have been invited is considered rude. (references)
	Uzbekistan	Since April 1, 2000, foreigners have been obliged to pay for certain services (hotels, long-distance transportation, and telecommunications, among others) in dollars. (references)
	Qatar	Visitors to Qatar are required to pay for all medical services throughout their visit to Qatar. (references)
Women	Ukraine	Labor laws establish the legal equality of men and women, including equal pay for equal work, a principle that generally is observed; however, the economic decline of the past decade has harmed women disproportionately. (references)
	Luxembourg	The law mandates equal pay for equal work, and the Ministry for the Promotion of Women has a mandate to encourage a climate of equal treatment and opportunity; however, according to government reports, women were paid 20 to 30 percent less than men for comparable work. (references)
	Costa Rica	The Constitution and Labor Code require that women and men receive equal pay for equal work; however, the estimated earned income for women is approximately 35 percent of the earned income for men, $4,518 and $13,080 respectively. (references)
Worker Rights	China	Tibetans are reportedly discriminated against in employment in some urban occupations; ethnic Han are hired preferentially for many jobs and receive greater pay for the same work. (references)
	South Africa	The law standardizes time-and-a-half pay for overtime, establishes a 45-hour workweek, and authorizes 4 months of maternity leave for women. (references)
	Pakistan	Some have been repatriated at the expense of individuals who discover them and pay for their return home. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Chris Dodd	It's a simple enough question. The American people are going to pay for this. They'd like to have some idea. Don't tell me for a single second that the people at the Pentagon don't have some estimates here.
Rush Limbaugh	So it's the corporation's liability to pay for and fund fully the children and their childcare.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Their vaults are soon exhausted to pay for foreign commodities.
William H. Taft	1909-1913	While some of them, like the reclamation of arid lands, are made to pay for themselves, others are of such an indirect benefit that this cannot be expected of them.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Trade Above all, if we are to pay for our commitments abroad, we must expand our exports.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	We also can't reward work and family unless men and women get equal pay for equal work.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pay for": pay for piece work ♦ pay for the meal ♦ pay for the sins of others ♦ rate of pay for overtime ♦ to pay for ♦ you get what you pay for. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "pay for"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		поемам разноските за, плащам за (cash up for). (various references)

Czech		pykat za (atone for). (various references)

Dutch		� la pistole zitten (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references)

Finnish		kustantaa (defray the expenses of, pay the cost of, publish). (various references)

French		payer le repas (pay for the meal), salaire � la tâche (pay for piece work, payment by the job, piece-work payment), être � la pistole (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references)

German		ausbaden (carry the can for, have to take the consequences). (various references)

Greek		πληρώνω (defray, pay, pay out, remunerate, shell out). (various references)

Hungarian		fizet valamiért. (various references)

Indonesian		membayari, bayar (pay). (various references)

Italian		scontare (atone for, calculation of present value, deduct, discount, discounting, reduce, serve). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		罰が�"たる (you'll pay for that!), 立て替える (to pay for another, to pay in advance, to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him), 立て替え (pay for another). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たてかえる (to pay for another, to pay in advance, to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him, to rebuild, to reconstruct), たてかえ (pay for another), ばちがあたる (you'll pay for that!). (various references)

Manx		eeck (clear off debt, pay, pay off, pay out, payment, remittance). (various references)

Pig Latin		aypay orfay

Portuguese		gozar de um regime de favor na prisão (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references)

Romanian		plãti pentru, avea de suferit pentru. (various references)

Russian		платить за. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		platiti za. (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 out, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay). (various references)

Swedish		bekosta (bear the cost of, defray the cost of, pay the expenses of). (various references)

Turkish		karşılığını ödemek, ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out). (various references)

Ukranian		окупатися, оплачувати (defray, foot, pay, remunerate), поплатитися (forfeit, pay the devil). (various references)

Welsh		talu am. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ean exanastaV o anqrwpoV peripathsh exw epi rabdou aqwoV estai o pataxaV plhn thV argiaV autou apoteisei kai ta iatreia
Latin	405	Vulgate	Si surrexerit et ambulaverit foris super baculum suum innocens erit qui percussit ita tamen ut operas eius et inpensas in medicos restituat
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	If he aryse and goo out vpon his staf, he shal be ynnocent that smoot; so neuertheles that he restore the bisy traueils of hym, and the expensis into leches.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Yf he ryse agayne and walke without vpon his staffe then shall he that smote hi goo quyte: saue only he shal bere his charges while he laye in bed and paye for his healinge.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	If he shall rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 19
Cebuano	Kong makabangon ug makalakaw siya sa gawas nga magasungkod, nan ang nagsamad kaniya makagawas; siya magabayad lamang kaniya sa panahon nga nausik, ug siya pagapatambalan niya hangtud nga mamaayo na gayud.
Croatian	ali poslije ustane i mogne izlaziti, makar i sa štapom, onda onome koji ga je udario neka je oprošteno, samo neka mu plati njegov gubitak vremena i pribavi mu posvemašnje izljeèenje.
Danish	så skal Gerningsmanden være sagesløs, hvis han kan stå op og gå ud støttet til sin Stok; kun skal han godtgøre ham hans Tidsspilde og sørge for hans Helbredelse.
Dutch	Indien hij weder opstaat, en op straat gaat bij zijn stok, zo zal hij, die hem sloeg, onschuldig zijn; alleen zal hij geven hetgeen hij verzuimd heeft, en hij zal hem volkomen laten helen.
Finnish	niin olkoon, jos hän tointuu ja voi mennä ulos sauvaansa nojaten, lyöjä vapaa rangaistuksesta; korvatkoon ainoastaan hänen sairastamisaikansa ja pitäköön huolta hänen paranemisestaan.
German	kommt er auf, daß er ausgeht an seinem Stabe, so soll, der ihn schlug, unschuldig sein, nur daß er ihm bezahle, was er versäumt hat, und das Arztgeld gebe.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	tetapi kemudian bisa bangun dan berjalan kembali dengan tongkat, orang yang memukulnya harus merawatnya sampai sembuh dan memberi ganti rugi selama ia sakit.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	jikalau orang itu bangkit berdiri pula serta berjalan di luar dengan bersandar pada tongkatnya, maka orang yang sudah memalu akan dia tiada bersalah, hanya akan digantinya rugi dari karena berhenti kerjanya dan disuruhnya obati dia sampai dia sembuh sakit.
Italian	se poi si alza ed esce con il bastone, chi lo ha colpito sar� ritenuto innocente, ma dovr� pagare il riposo forzato e procurargli le cure.
Maori	Ki te ara ake ia, a ka haereere ki waho me te toko i tana tokotoko, katahi ka kore te hara o te tangata i patua ai ia; otiia me utu e ia tona whakamangeretanga ki te mahi, me mea hoki kia ata rongoatia kia ora ai.
Norwegian	dersom han da kommer op igjen og går ute med stav, da skal den som slo, være fri for straff; men han skal gi ham vederlag for den tid han har tapt, og koste full lægedom på ham.
Portuguese	se ele tornar a levantar-se e andar fora sobre o seu bordão, então aquele que o feriu será absolvido; somente lhe pagará o tempo perdido e fará que ele seja completamente curado.
Rumanian	cel ce l -a lovit sq nu fie pedepsit, dacq celalt se va scula wi se va plimba afarq, sprijinit pe un toiag. Numai sq -l despqgubeascq pentru kncetarea lucrului lui wi sq -l kngrijeascq pknq la vindecare.
Swedish	dock att han sedan kommer sig och kan gå ute, stödd vid sin stav, så skall den som slog honom vara fri ifrån straff; allenast ersätte han honom för den tid han har förlorat och besörje sjukvård åt honom.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-o-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: foray, payor.
	-2 letters: faro, fora, frap, fray, ofay, prao, pray, proa, prof, ropy.
	-3 letters: arf, far, fay, fop, for, foy, fro, fry, oaf, oar, ora, par, pay, pro, pry, pya, rap, ray, rya, yap, yar.
	-4 letters: ar, ay, fa, of, op, or, oy, pa, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-o-p-r-y"
	+2 letters: foreplay.
	+3 letters: foreplays, prefatory, profanely, profanity.
	+4 letters: profitably, profligacy.
	+5 letters: filmography, flexography, parfocality, profanatory, prolificacy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 79 46 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000110 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#121 &#32 &#70 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0079 0046 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
pay for placement	104
pay for performance	84
pay for click	59
pay for play	31
pay for placement search engine	28
merit pay for teacher	16
pay for opinion	9
pay for medical bill	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pay For

Definition: Pay For

Pay For

Verb

Synonym: Pay For

Synonyms within Context: Pay For

Price

Crosswords: Pay For

Modern Usage: Pay For

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Pay For

Books

Periodicals

Photo Album: Pay For

Familiar Quotations: Pay For

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Caleb Colton

Hosea Ballou

Josh Billings

Muhammad Ali

Plato

Publilius Syrus

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Historic Usage: Pay For

United Nations

Use in Literature: Pay For

Emma

Austen, Jane

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Pay For

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Pay For

Chris Dodd

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Pay For

Andrew Jackson

William H. Taft

John F. Kennedy

Bill Clinton

Expressions: Pay For

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pay For

pay for placement

pay for performance

pay for click

pay for play

pay for placement search engine

merit pay for teacher

pay for opinion

pay for medical bill

Modern Translations: Pay For

Bulgarian

Czech

Dutch

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish