Definition of pays

"pays" in the noun sense

1. wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary

something that remunerates

"wages were paid by check"

"he wasted his pay on drink"

"they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

"pays" 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"

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Quotations for pays

Lying pays no tax. [ Proverb ]

Talking pays no toll. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that dies pays all debts. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wine ever pays for his lodging. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that pays last never pays twice. [ Proverb ]

Who pays the physician does the cure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A beggar pays a benefit with a louse. [ Proverb ]

He that pays another remembers himself. [ Proverb ]

Pain pays the income of each precious thing. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man often pays dear for a small frugality. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that requites a benefit pays a great debt. [ Proverb ]

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. [ Sewell ]

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

God does not pay every week, but He pays at the end. [ Dutch Proverb ]

The soul pays soundly for the house-room in the body. [ Proverb ]

He that pays beforehand shall have his work ill done. [ Proverb ]

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. [ La Fontaine ]

Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. [ Proverb ]

He that licks honey from a nettle pays too dear for it. [ Proverb ]

Hypocrisy is the ready homage that vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He is not drunk gratis who pays his reason for his shot. [ Proverb ]

Censure's the tax a man pays the public for being eminent. [ Proverb ]

He promises like a merchant man, and pays like a man-of-war. [ Proverb ]

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. [ Jonathan Swift ]

Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never. [ Pascal ]

The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him. [ Proverb ]

An hypocrite pays tribute to God, only that he may impose upon men. [ Proverb ]

Provocation is a play of coquetry of which virtue often pays the penalty. [ Lingrie ]

He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. [ Phaedr ]

Provocation is one of the arts of coquetry for which virtue often pays the penalty. [ Lingree ]

He who does evil that good may come pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven. [ Hare ]

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. [ La Bruyere ]

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. [ Colton ]

Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is, to watch the success of our enemy, to be sure of it. [ Colton ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

pays in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters pays:

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pays in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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

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Words within the letters of pays

2 letter words in pays (4 words)

3 letter words in pays (8 words)

4 letter words in pays (Anagrams) (3 words)

Words containing the sequence pays

Words with pays in them (1 word)

Words that end with pays (7 words)

Word Growth involving pays

Shorter words in pays

ay ays

ay pay

pa pay

Longer words containing pays

overpays

paysage paysages

paysagist paysagists

paysheet paysheets

payslip payslips

paystub paystubs

repays prepays

spays mispays

underpays