Usually means: Exchange of money for services.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. pay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pay, pay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pay, pay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pay, pay, pay, paY: Wordnik
  7. pay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pay, pay: Wiktionary
  9. pay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pay, pay: Dictionary.com
  13. pay (n.), pay (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pay (geology), Pay (letter), Pay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pay: Rhymezone
  19. pay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pay, Pay, Pay, Pay: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. pay: Free Dictionary
  23. pay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Pay, pay: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. pay: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. pay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. pay: Law.com Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. pay: Legal dictionary
  5. pay: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pay: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. PAY: Acronym Finder
  4. PAY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. pay: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pay, pay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pay: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See paid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
verb:  (transitive) To be profitable for.
verb:  (transitive) To give (something else than money).
verb:  (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
verb:  (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
verb:  (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
verb:  (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
noun:  Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
adjective:  Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
adjective:  Pertaining to or requiring payment.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
noun:  A diminutive of the unisex given name Payton.
noun:  A surname.

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