Verb

To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

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(ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.

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To be profitable for.

To give (something else than money).

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

not paying me a welcome

*

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

To be profitable or worth the effort.

To discharge an obligation or debt.

To suffer consequences.

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) 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.

Verb

To place something somewhere.

* , chapter=8

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To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

(finance) To exercise a put option.

To express something in a certain manner.

* Hare

All this is ingeniously and ably put .

(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

* (John Dryden)

His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

To attach or attribute; to assign.

to put a wrong construction on an act or expression

(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13

No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

to put''' a question; to '''put a case

* Berkeley

Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.

* Milton

These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.

(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

* Jonathan Swift

These wretches put us upon all mischief.

* Sir Walter Scott

Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.

* Milton

Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.

(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

(Raymond)