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21pay off — verb 1. yield a profit or result (Freq. 4) His efforts finally paid off • Hypernyms: ↑yield, ↑pay, ↑bear • Verb Frames: Something s 2. eliminate by paying off ( …
22crime doesn’t pay — A US slogan particularly associated with the radio crime series The Shadow, in which it was spoken by The Shadow at the end of each broadcast (see quot. 1937), and with the cartoon detective Dick Tracy (see quot. 1954). 1892 Catholic World Dec.… …
23pay-for-performance — UK US adjective [before noun] ► HR, WORKPLACE relating to a system in which pay is based on how well someone does their job: a pay for performance plan/program/system »True pay for performance plans provide superior pay only in the case of… …
24pay — pay1 [ peı ] (present participle paying; past tense and past participle paid [ peıd ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to give money in order to buy something: pay for: Let me pay for dinner. pay someone for something: Can I pay you for …
25Pay It Forward — Infobox Film name = Pay It Forward image size = caption = Pay It Forward theatrical poster director = Mimi Leder producer = Mary McLaglen Jonathan Treisman Steven Reuther Peter Abrams Robert L. Levy (II) Paddy Carson Leslie Dixon Mary McLagen… …
26U.S. military pay grades — Pay grades are used within the military of the United States for personnel and pay purposes and are based on a servicemember s rank. While ranks may have different names between the five military services, each rank corresponds to a pay grade in… …
27Pay it forward — The expression pay it forward is used to describe the concept of third party beneficiary in which a creditor who offers the debtor the option of paying the debt forward by lending it to a third person instead of paying it back to the original… …
28not — adverb 1 used to make a word or expression negative: “Can we go to the park?” “No, not today, dear.” | Lorna was not a tidy child and left toys everywhere. | The store is open all week but not on Sundays. | Sally will not eat meat. | You were… …
29You shall not steal — is one of the Ten Commandments,[1] of the Torah (the Pentateuch), which are widely understood as moral imperatives by legal scholars, Jewish scholars, Catholic scholars, and Post Reformation scholars.[2] Though usually understood to prohibit the… …
30Executive pay — is financial compensation received by an officer of a firm, often as a mixture of salary, bonuses, shares of and/or call options on the company stock, etc. Over the past three decades, executive pay has risen dramatically beyond the rising levels …
