Thesaurus:pay

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]

Hypernyms

• compensate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• give    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• ante
• ante up
• bribe    [⇒ thesaurus]
• disburse
• fund
• invest
• pay off
• pay out
• pay the freight
• reimburse    [⇒ thesaurus]
• repay
• settle
• splurge
• squander

Further reading

• “807. payment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “pay” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.