Thesaurus:pay
English
Verb
Sense: to give money, or other compensation, in exchange for goods or services
Synonyms
- cough up (idiomatic)
- defray (obsolete)
- do the needful (idiomatic)
- expend (rare)
- foot the bill
- fork out (idiomatic)
- fork over (idiomatic)
- lay out
- pay
- pay the freight (idiomatic)
- pay up
- pony up (idiomatic)
- quit [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
- shell out (idiomatic)
- spend
- stump up (idiomatic)
Antonyms
- buy [⇒ thesaurus]
- earn
- —
- default
- levant
- repudiate [⇒ thesaurus]
- steal [⇒ thesaurus]
- welsh (offensive)
- —
- discharge
- waive [⇒ thesaurus]
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Further reading
- “807. payment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “pay” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.