Clues for the word "PAY"
We've had 179 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 475 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on April 15, 2025.
Definition of pay
- v. t. - To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
- v. t. - To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
- v. t. - Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
- v. t. - To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
- v. t. - To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
- v. t. - To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
- v. i. - To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
- v. i. - Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
- n. - Satisfaction; content.
- n. - An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Referring Clues
- Yield, as a dividend
- Settle up
- "___ here" (store sign)
- Be worthwhile
- Settle up with
- Fork over
- Wages
- Take care of a bill
- Strike sticking point
- Foot the bill
- Treat
- Salary
- Worker's check
- Reward
- Compensation
- Pony up
- Something to do as you go?
- Take care of the bill
- Cough up the cash
- Be advantageous
- Kind of telephone
- Be worth it
- Give, as a compliment
- Emolument
- Something to do for your sins?
- Cough up
- Shell out
- Settle a debt
- Produce results
- Suffer the consequences
- Take care of the tab
- Pick up the tab
- Handle the bill
- Spring (for)
- Settle, as a bill
- You might do this through the nose?
- Working capital?
- "Crime doesn't ___"
- Envelope's contents, at times
- Remuneration
- Discharge a debt
- Kind of day
- Expend
- Subject of union negotiations
- Weekly stipend, for many
- With 115-Down, make a required contribution
- ___ now
- "Crime doesn't ___"
- Take care of the check
- Prove worthwhile
- Recompense
- What crime doesn't do
- Ante up
- Settle the bill
- Stipend
- Settle accounts
- Worker's compensation
- Remit
- ___ the piper
- Visit the cashier
- Discharge debts
- ___ raise
- Be useful
- Take a swipe, say
- Yield a return
- Settle a bill
- Strike concern
- Weekly stipend, e.g.
- With 133-Across, amounts that rise with raises
- Piper's due
- See 24-Down
- Fork it over
- Bestow upon, as a compliment
- Income
- One way to complete an online purchase
- Cancel a debt
- Kind of TV
- Pick up the check
- Job specification
- Turn out to be worthwhile
- Earnings
- Compensate
- Reimburse
- Remit funds
- Money for work
- Settle the debt
- Eliminate a debt
- Hand over money for something
- Give money for goods
- Give money to a cashier
- What people work for
- Crime does not ___
- ___-per-view
- What crime may do
- Hand over money
- Settle one's account
- "___ with Lovin'" (McDonald's promo of February 2015)
- You might do it dearly
- Nirvana "___ to Play"
- A bit of money for father
- For parking, on some days, you give a fee
- Reimbursement
- In '16 Across', it's about £50
- Party with no right to show a profit
- Stand treat, yet be right out of the party!
- Give coppers, but not all day
- It has its day of enrichment!
- Last of the money given to father?
- Plunk down
- Stub info
- Hazard ___
- Submit to blackmail, say
- Secretary with variable income
- Money's sound in 23
- Wage
- Grab the tab
- Deem worth it
- Like some TVs and toilets
- Rob Peter to ___ Paul
- Use Venmo, say
- Subject of hiring negotiations
- Salary or wage
- Spend
- Yield as a return
- Show a profit on a piece of land from Paisley
- What you do to purchase something
- Foot a bill
- Info in many a help wanted ad
- Give money to personnel all year initially
- Settle a debt with
- A bit of money for dad
- Settle
- Remunerate
- Sensitive figure to ask someone about
- What to work for
- "You'll ___ for this!"
- Money dad gets on the fourth of July
- Hand over dollars
- Equal ___
- A salary or wage
- Be punished (for)
- Close out a bar tab
- Please ___ Here (checkout sign)
- With 53-Across, money transfer app
- Do this when your stuff is rung up
- Give dad less than a penny!
- Give money to
- Word with base or combat
- Union concern
- ___ through the nose
- What to do before taking your groceries home
- Use Cash App, e.g.
- Topic in union negotiations
- Equal ___ for equal work
- With 12-Down, spend much more than a fair price
- You ___ (words before an amount after discount)
- Subject of job offer negotiations
- Word before "a fine" or "a visit"
- It's illegal for employers to prohibit workers from discussing this
- Close a tab
- Pick up the bill
- Topic for a labor union
- Cover the bill
- Job interview subject
- Insert a token, say
- Prove useful
- ___ transparency
- Tap one's phone, perhaps
- Suffer consequences
- In a shop, a year's cash receipts?
- ___ to play
- Worker's earning
- ___-as-you-go
- Last of the money given to father?
- "Cough it up!"
- "___ attention!"
- Close the tab
- Hand over wages
- Do this to make a purchase
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 15, 2025
- LA Times - April 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2024
- Family Time - December 30, 2024
- USA Today - December 23, 2024
- Family Time - December 22, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 10, 2024
- Daily American - December 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2024
- USA Today - October 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 21, 2024
- New York Times - September 10, 2024
- Family Time - September 02, 2024
- LA Times - September 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2024
- USA Today - August 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2024
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