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PAY FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Have as a guest
Example:
I invited them to a restaurant
Synonyms:
invite; pay for
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pay for" is one way to...):
interact (act together or towards others or with others)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
The pile of cuffs grew into a mountain, and Martin knew that he was doomed to toil for a thousand years to pay for them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The March of Dimes helped pay for the study along with the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other medical research institutes.
(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)
What was he—a younger son, a penniless clerk, a squire unable to pay for his own harness—that he should dare to raise his eyes to the fairest maid in Hampshire?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It's insurance that helps people pay for prescription drugs.
(Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
In most cases, the employer helps pay for that insurance.
(Health Insurance, NIH)
When the young wrens heard that, they were frightfully angry, and screamed: “No, that we are not! Our parents are honest people! Bear, you will have to pay for that!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“You shall not be oppressed by the receipt of favours, Miss Trotwood. You may pay for him, if you like. We won't be hard about terms, but you shall pay if you will.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Man! he said, but it made us afeard, for we expeckit that we should have to pay for it wi' some rare piece o' ill luck, so as to keep up the average.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
An outcast himself from the pack of the part-grown dogs, his sanguinary methods and remarkable efficiency made the pack pay for its persecution of him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
