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  • 111pay down — {v. phr.} 1. To give as a deposit on some purchase, the rest of which is to be paid in periodic installments. * / How much can you pay down on the house, sir? the realtor asked./ 2. To decrease a debt with periodical payments. * /I d like to pay… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 112pay down — {v. phr.} 1. To give as a deposit on some purchase, the rest of which is to be paid in periodic installments. * / How much can you pay down on the house, sir? the realtor asked./ 2. To decrease a debt with periodical payments. * /I d like to pay… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 113pay off — verb Date: 1710 transitive verb 1. a. to give all due wages to; especially to pay in full and discharge (an employee) b. to pay (a debt or a creditor) in full c. bribe 2. to inflict retribution on 3. to allow (a thread or rope) to run off a spool …

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  • 114pay up — UK US pay up Phrasal Verb with pay({{}}/peɪ/ verb (paid, paid) INFORMAL ► [I] to give someone the money that you owe them, especially when you do not want to: »After being taken to court, they finally paid up …

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  • 115pay off — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. discharge, let go, drop from the payroll; see dismiss 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To exact revenge for or from: avenge, pay back, redress, repay, requite, vindicate. Informal: fix. Archaic: wreak. Idioms: even the …

    English dictionary for students

  • 116pay\ down — v. phr. 1. To give as a deposit on some purchase, the rest of which is to be paid in periodic installments. How much can you pay down on the house, sir? the realtor asked. 2. To decrease a debt with periodical payments. I d like to pay down the… …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 117pay off — 1. Pay and discharge (as hired men). 2. Punish, pay, take revenge upon, retort upon, retaliate, be quits, be even with, give a quid pro quo. 3. (Naut.) Fall off, fall to leeward, fall off from the wind …

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  • 118pay back — 1) she has sworn to pay him back for his philandering Syn: get one s revenge on, be revenged on, avenge oneself on, get back at, get even with, settle accounts with, exact retribution on 2) they eventually paid back the money Syn: repay, pay off …

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  • 119pay back — /ˌpeɪ bæk/ verb to give money back to someone ● Banks are warning students not to take out loans which they cannot pay back. ● I lent him £50 and he promised to pay me back in a month. ● He has never paid me back the money he borrowed …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 120pay·off — /ˈpeıˌɑːf/ noun, pl offs 1 : a good result : the advantage or benefit that is gained from doing something [count] You ll have to work hard but there ll be a big/large payoff in the end. We expected more of a payoff for all our hard work. What s… …

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