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(obsolete) To pay for (something); to buy.
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To contribute one's share of a payment; to provide funds; to pay what is due.
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Nonstandard spelling of ante up. [To contribute one's share of a payment; to provide funds; to pay what is due.]
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(business) To outsource (an employee, position, or function) to India, especially to Bangalore.
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To dispose of in a bargain, usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage.
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An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
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(transitive) To throw down a coin as one's share in a joint contribution.
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(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
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Alternative form of rob Peter to pay Paul
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(slang) To pay a debt or hand over money.
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Obsolete form of buy. [(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.]
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(transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
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To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar.
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Alternative spelling of buydown [(finance) An accelerated repayment of the principal of a loan.]
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To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
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(of money) to pay, disburse
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Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
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(transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
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To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
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(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
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(dated, finance, slang) To accept or discount a bill.
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(transitive) To receive payment for work.
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(business) To qualify for a bonus or other amount of money that has been promised.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To pay ransom.
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(archaic, transitive) To buy off; ransom; redeem (from sin, hell, etc.).
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(transitive) To pay or provide money for.
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The documents authorizing such leave.
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To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
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Synonym of golden handshake (“generous severance payment”)
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(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland, obsolete) To redeem or buy back from pawn; resume a pledge by restoring the money that has been lent on it.
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(obsolete) An entrance-fee.
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To covertly pay in it the proceeds of a transaction in return for mediating it.
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(transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
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To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
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(finance) loss portfolio transfer
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(transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
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(transitive, obsolete) To pawn; to lay in pledge.
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the process of helping to find new employment for redundant workers, especially executives
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(ditransitive) To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
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(transitive) To give (something else than money).
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(business, finance) A reduction in salary or wages.
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(transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
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To outlay money which is owed as a membership fee or price of admission.
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Of an individual or business, to earn enough to cover one's expenses.
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(film, often attributive) A kind of contract ensuring that an actor, director, etc. is paid even if their work is ultimately not used.
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To cover someone's expenses; to pay for someone.
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(idiomatic, of a job) To provide enough income to sustain one's lifestyle.
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(idiomatic) To pay expenses for something, and thus be in a position to be in control.
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(by extension) To incur a cost to participate in an activity.
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To subsidize; to contribute to paying part of the cost of (something); to contribute to (something).
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Alternative form of payout [An amount of money paid out.]
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An amount of money paid out.
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(finance, chiefly attributive) A kind of security issued by a trust, allocating the cash flows from the underlying pool to the securities holders on a pro rata basis.
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(obsolete) To pay at once; to pay ready money.
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(transitive, slang) To pay (an amount of money).
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(transitive, slang) To pay (an amount of money).
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(transitive, idiomatic) To pay (usually a bill, debt or due).
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(Southwestern US, regional) To pay or hand over; to shell out
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To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
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(chiefly UK, dated) To mark a bill or a debt record as "paid".
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(archaic) A forfeit paid for withdrawing from a bargain.
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An amount of money or resources put aside for a specific purpose.
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(chiefly US, idiomatic) To pay for; to offer money.
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(US, transitive) To fund (a college payment plan) with a large payment, more than the usual annual payment.
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(law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
adj
(of coffee, food, etc.) Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
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(business) A contractual obligation either to take delivery of contracted goods or services or to make a specified payment.
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A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
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(finance, accounting, informal) An audit
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(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
n
(economics) A limit on the state benefits an unemployed person can receive, preventing these benefits from exceeding the amount that the person would be expected to earn if employed.
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Alternative form of wadset [(obsolete, Scotland) To mortgage land.]
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(transitive, by extension) To end (a debt) by doing labor for the person owed money.
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Obsolete spelling of yield [(obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.]
n
(obsolete) Payment; tribute.
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