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  • 41pay a call — tv. to go to the toilet; to leave to go to the toilet. (See also call of nature; nature’s call.) □ Excuse me. I have to pay a call. □ Tom left to pay a call. He should be back soon …

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  • 42pay the price — work hard, endure, suffer    To be an Olympic athlete, you have to pay the price: pain …

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  • 43pay your dues — work hard and learn, be loyal for years    In the sport of rodeo, you have to pay your dues to get respect …

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  • 44pay out — how much did you have to pay out for that bike? Syn: spend, expend, dish out, put up, part with, hand over; informal shell out, fork out/up, lay out, cough up …

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  • 45Pay for performance (healthcare) — Pay for performance is an emerging movement in health insurance (initially in Britain and United States). Providers under this arrangement are rewarded for meeting pre established targets for delivery of healthcare services. This is a fundamental …

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  • 46Pay to Play — can refer to several different concepts.In politicsIn politics, pay to play refers to a system, akin to payola in the music industry, by which one pays (or must pay) money in order to become a player. The common denominator of all forms of pay to …

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  • 47Pay television — Pay television, premium television, or premium channels refers to subscription based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and internet television. Some …

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  • 48Pay-per-view — (often abbreviated PPV) is the system in which television viewers can purchase events to be seen on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes. The event is shown at the same time to everyone ordering it, as opposed to video …

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  • 49Pay-Pay — is the oldest brand of cigarette rolling paper in the world. Pay Pay rolling papers were originally traded by Spanish sailors for cotton and tobacco in North America; this is the earliest anyone has ever heard of a paper entering the North… …

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  • 50Pay as you throw — (PAYT) (also called trash metering, unit pricing, variable rate pricing, or user pay) is a usage pricing model for disposing of municipal solid waste. Users are charged a rate based on how much waste they present for collection to the… …

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