Definition of paying

"paying" in the verb sense

1. pay

give money, usually in exchange for goods or services

"I paid four dollars for this sandwich"

"Pay the waitress, please"

2. give, pay

convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc. bestow

"Don't pay him any mind"

"give the orders"

"Give him my best regards"

"pay attention"

3. pay up, ante up, pay

cancel or discharge a debt

"pay up, please!"

4. yield, pay, bear

bring in

"interest-bearing accounts"

"How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

5. pay, pay off, make up, compensate

do or give something to somebody in return

"Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"

6. give, pay, devote

dedicate

"give thought to"

"give priority to"

"pay attention to"

7. pay

be worth it

"It pays to go through the trouble"

8. pay

render

"pay a visit"

"pay a call"

9. pay

bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action

"You'll pay for this!"

"She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"

"You'll pay for this opinion later"

10. pay

make a compensation for

"a favor that cannot be paid back"

11. pay

discharge or settle

"pay a debt"

"pay an obligation"

"paying" in the adjective sense

1. gainful, paid, paying

yielding a fair profit

2. compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary

for which money is paid

"a paying job"

"remunerative work"

"salaried employment"

"stipendiary services"

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Quotations for paying

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [ Carlyle ]

Revenge is a debt, in the paying o( which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. [ Colton ]

Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. [ Hazlitt ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]

paying in Scrabble®

The word paying is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters paying:

PAYING
(48)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word paying

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paying in Words With Friends™

The word paying is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters paying:

PAYING
(84)
 

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Words within the letters of paying

2 letter words in paying (8 words)

3 letter words in paying (15 words)

4 letter words in paying (8 words)

5 letter words in paying (1 word)

6 letter words in paying (1 word)

paying + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence paying

Words that start with paying (1 word)

Words with paying in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving paying

Shorter words in paying

ay ayin

in yin ayin

ay pay

pa pay

Longer words containing paying

nonpaying

overpaying

ratepaying

repaying nonrepaying

repaying prepaying

spaying mispaying

taxpaying

underpaying

unpaying